Maundy Thursday, Good Friday

Passover

Dinner

Is often the bearer

Of bad knews.

Here you are

Thinking a meal is a normal ritual meal

A celebration of victory

Of how blood passes over

And people pass through

But victory and liberation

Came to stay.

A remembrance

Of how when all hope was lost

God came through.

This

Was supposed to be

A family meal.

A good day.

Why would he ruin

This meal

With the truth

We've all been trying to ignore?

The Garden

I come to the garden alone…….

Well not really

But for a minute there

I might as well be.

I get it though.

If I had just had my heartbroken

By the news of untimely death

And in the most brutal way

The weight of fear

Grief

Trauma

Weighing so heavy,

May have me find solace in sleep too.

The problem is

I have no time to sleep.

I only have time to see

If there’s a way out

And if this cup can’t pass

Make peace with this assignment.

I don’t know if I’ve ever

Prayed this hard,

Felt this hurt,

Pleaded this much,

Been this alone.

Who says yes

To death?

I guess only those

Who know

Life is on the other side.Dinner

Is often the bearer

Of bad news.

Here you are

Thinking a meal is a normal ritual meal

A celebration of victory

Of how blood passes over

And people pass through

But victory and liberation

Came to stay.

A remembrance

Of how when all hope was lost

God came through.

This

Was supposed to be

A family meal.

A good day.

Why would he ruin

This meal

With the truth

We've all been trying to ignore?

Good Friday

Today

We gather for the funeral.

We come to say goodbye

To humanity and divinity

Stripped bare baked

Whipped unrecognizable

Ripped away without our say

Today

Despite all protest

Despite all justice

Despite all preventive measures

He dies.....

Or lays down his life.

He

Who could call in a favor

And stop it all

Prays

Observes

Looks out

Checks on his Mama

Sings a hymn

Takes a drink,

And let's us know

It is finished.

He finished what he started,

Decides to turn in.... turn over....his spirit

And died.

Today

We gather

In chicken dinner

And fish fry

And remember

That one time

He did that one thing

That made us feel away

And we loved him fiercely

And we lost him

In this way

Today

We remember

That even in death

Especially in death

The last thing we are

Is alone