Poem for 1st Sunday in Lent Mark 1:12-15

The old has passed
With a final test and purging
That has set the stage
  in this plane
for eternity to break in
to a world
  still the same
  and yet new
(repent)
a world that has seen
  its future dashed
      again
            and again
      by the mindless strivings
of humanity
  trying so very hard
(for the kingdom)
          to make it alone
standing in its toddler steps
and facing
    life
(of God)
in the hopes and dreams
    of making it
        with an eye toward the God who was and is
on their own
but the air smells different now
(is at hand)
with a newness
        and a freshness
that seems to come from beyond time
(Life)
and there is an excitement
(has come to a fullness)
in the air
(that has not been known
on this earth
since God looked at what had been made
and said
It is good)