Poem based on 13th Sunday after Pentecost John 6:56-69

We study the words and signs

--(trapped)

and try to understand

--(trapped)

the Greatness

--that is God

the words come to us

limited

--to a fraction

of the message of Love

by our words

--(trapped)

How can we understand

How can we really know

The expanse

--the expanse of God’s word

when we are trapped by words

and what they mean

only in relation

to what we know

--in this life

trying to understand

--the workings of the spirit

locked in our own intellect

and limited by it

Christ said we are free

Free to see

--to know God

through Christ

through eating Christ’ body

--and drinking Christ’ blood

through knowing Christ

--not from a distance

but right here

now

by what Christ does

to me

--(faith)

from deep within