Tuesday, January 28, 2020

twenty-eight


“When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, ‘Do you want to be made well?’” John 5:6

but,
if we say yes, how
will we ever manage
without
the delicious bitterness
on our tongues
destroying the taste buds
of grace and hope,
the weight of the
decades-old grudges
slowly crushing our souls,
the unbridled anger
curdling our hearts?

© 2020 Thom M. Shuman

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