“If I confide my secrets to you in a bar…”

Omar Khayyam
Rubaiyat (262)

If I confide my secrets
to you in a bar,
it is far better than to pray
without you in
a house of worship.

You are the alpha and omega;
without you everything is nothing.
If you wish, you can
sentence us to hell,
and if you wish, you can
decide to cherish us.

Translated by Juan Cole

Remove the chains

Mark 5

Set him free

from his madness.

Hear his plea.

Speak the word.

Remove the chains

and

set him free.

　

Set her free

from her disease.

Feel her faith,

Locate the touch.

Remove the chains

and

set her free.

 

 

 

I am so used to my chains.

Comfortable but binding.

I have no need to change.

There’s no reason to cry out in distress.

or care about anybody else’s shackles.

 

 

I don’t have to lunge

for the hem of His garment

here in the land of the free.

I Hear the Rolling Thunder

Mark 4:35-41

If it’s true that the gods do not sleep,

perhaps it was Jesus’ most fully human condition.

Remembering Eve, Abraham and Israel

Dreaming of angels, Abba and peace

A blessed rest after doing His Father’s will.

 

 

But in the midst of Nirvana

He was hijacked to

the world He created.

Drenched in water and the screams of

“Don’t you care if we drown?”

Maybe

He thought

He was having His first nightmare.

So He played the hero.

He spoke to the cosmic snooze button.

Calmed the wind.

Stopped the waves.

And then

mumbled to the crew

before going back to sleep:

“Why so little faith,

when you’re traveling with the King?”