Poem: 2nd Sunday after Pentecost Mark 2:23-28

Securely wrapped in our knowledge

We fancy ourselves free

To pursue

---- more knowledge

if it be to our liking

---- each other

if it be to our liking

or maybe

if that not be to our liking

we have

---- after all

the freedom

as stated right here

approved

----- by those who know knowledge

as what is

---- or should be

that rule by which

everyone lives

and where our knowledge fails

there is always a flag

to button up

----- securely

any loose ends

left dangling there

exposing

those tell tail little flaws

that might require us

to move

so wrapped tightly now

in our knowledge

-------- and flag

we feel safe once more

until

someone

---- of obvious

-------- low character

spies yet another

---- threadbare seam

requiring

---- the mantle of religion

to be draped in folds

-------- and divisions

over our tightly wrapped self

and so with nose in the air

we go on our way

until

---- we trip

-------- or are pushed

and find ourselves

hopelessly mired

face to face

with a small child

who holds up her empty bowl

and says………………..more?