Unholy Sonnets: 20

(from Questions For Ecclesiastes)

If God survives us, will his kingdom come?
But let's row out to sea and ship the oars
And watch the planet drown in meteors.
If God forgives us, surely he will come.
Can we nail up a man and do the same
To a child? Yes. And drive the spikes through tears.
But let's row out to sea and watch the stars.
No matter what we do, they are the same,
Crossing the bleeding sky on shining feet,
Walking on water toward us, and then sinking.
Surely when he grew up, God must have known
What sort of death was waiting for one thinking
That with his coming history was complete.
We'll greet him as the children would have done.

--Mark Jarman

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