Monday, March 27, 2017

As the story goes

Haiku of unexpected life


As the story goes
Lazarus from Bethany
had been dead four days.

When Jesus arrived,
sister Martha did complain:
What kept you so long?

If you had been here!
I am the resurrection
and the life, he said.

Yes, Lord, I believe
that you are the Messiah;
God's Son, in the world.

Mary fell weeping
at Jesus' feet. Lord, she said,
If you had been here!

Had you come sooner
my brother would not have died.
Take me to his tomb.

Jesus also wept.
They removed the entrance stone
to see life triumph.


© Ken Rookes 2017

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