Haiku for the
family
Too busy to eat!
The crowd insist,
make demands;
they press upon him.
His foes malign him.
They say he has a
demon,
gone out of his
mind.
His family, too,
are worried. They
come to him,
try to take him
home.
He gathers his
friends,
laughs: a kingdom
divided
surely cannot
stand!
Take
care what you say,
lest
you blaspheme the Spirit
with
your objections.
His mother arrives
with his brothers,
calls him out.
He doesn’t
respond.
Looking at the crowd
he asks, Who is my
mother,
who are my brothers?
You are my mother
and my brothers,
when you do
what God is asking!
©
Ken Rookes. 2018
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