Poem for 4th Sunday in Lent Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Rejoice

let the trumpets sound in the heavens

Rejoice

at the return of the one lost

don’t ask at the why

or where

for this one was gone

lost in the gods of this world

sucked down

and running all the way

on his own

until by the gift of God

the bottom was seen

the momentum was stopped

and the face turned

Rejoice

not at what has been

but what will be

for the one who was lost

has been snatched from the jaws of death

by the God of love

Rejoice