One of the Least
I’m sorry
But
I feel badly for
The goats
Though I suppose
We should
Think of them
Like the Dwarfs in Narnia
In the last
Battle
Which is not
To think of them
At all
For their will
Leaves them behind
While we run on
To real
After-judgment
Narnia
But what if we
Had fed
The goats
Clothed them
Visited them
In prison
And was that all for naught
Nothing worthwhile
Investing
For their intransigence
Regarding
Faith
Beyond what was the walls
They knew
I don’t know
Presuming
We who do the asking
Are all sheep
As well
And are we saved
So securely
Well
Yes
We are
Which is not the issue
Being that
Of superiority
Of calling
And of giving
In that
We can’t guarantee
A thing
For an outcome
And
Don’t bother trying
Keep giving
With the basic things
Maybe the abstract
Sometimes
Should the goats
Want
A conversation
I don’t know
Poor goats
I’m sorry
Poor sheep
Too
I guess
For knowing
And for loving
A goat
Or abstractly
All the goats
Matthew 25:31-41
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Photo by Devon Wilson on Unsplash
All We Like Sheep
(Isaiah 53)
Somewhere in a mountainside
Or on more flattering pastureland
(depending on the kind,
and there are many kinds)
There are some sheep
And someone to care for them
It’s not a glamorous matter
There’s bad weather and a constant
Concern for good grazing and
Good water
A predator from outside crashing through
It doesn’t matter what size the flock
The worries are the same
I want them to live
I want them to grow
I want them to procreate another generation
There is a purpose for them
Some purposes are docile
Some will be drastic
That is the prophecy for sheep
And tending them
They are often wayward
They might need something like a stick, not
For punishment but guidance,
Especially to reach and
To enter through
At the end of day
The gate to home
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“boys”
Sasin Tipchai
Amphoe Phochai/Thailand
https://pixabay.com/en/users/sasint-3639875/
Ovine Titanosaur
A lost sheep led a farmer
toward discovery: broken
through terrestrial skin,
a thigh bone of Earth’s once-
roaming, largest dinosaur
Titanosaur
(there is only one
rank above the Titan)
There is precedence in
looking for the lost,
lone sheep
Stored wisdom and
insight add to the
task and treasure while
reconstructing ages
So, too, does one grower
looking for one charge—
one smaller creature, seeking
green, having turned away,
now only wanting home
(Thanks to The Guardian
for posting this story)
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