Poem based on 2nd Sunday after Pentecost Mark 3:20-35

Out on the edge

Of what we know

As existence

Stands one

Suspended

In a moment filled

With the hungry ears

-------- and hearts

------------ and souls

pushing

for the last drop of blood

this moment can give

and looking down on the crowd

from the inside

Christ knew the hunger

---- felt the pain

and loved them

while those

from far inside the edge

see only through their eyes

a world

dangerously close

to reality

---- breaking in

and call upon the spotlight to beam

---- center stage

to which Christ responds

by turning up

-------- the house lights

showing us

---- as if for the first time

our neighbor