2 poems with one poem an expression of thanks then the other a preachy story


given means

someone brought me
food
and others cleared my car
and I imagine that I’ll
lose the space
as soon as I go somewhere
but
I’m thankful
I can eat
and I can move away
when
needed or desired

in the parable
these helpers would be sheep
though busy sheep
helpful
and loving

the givers have the designation
sheep
or goat
and I wonder what
the receivers
such as I might be

maybe
lambs
or kids


Matthew 25:31-46


the one arrives for whom there has been waiting

a story with a king
who dispenses justice
a righteous king
who
has the power with discretion
and the role
given
to play

and shall people be judged
by this wonder who could
be
man or woman
or those gender parts
in God

and so the king
metes
as if the word were ready for this one
alone and
throughout
time

and a throne is
set
the the judgment happens simply

you were me and in
need
and these came to help you
though they needn’t
have known you and you had comfort
even
more life to give

and for the metaphor
I call the helpers
sheep as I
frankly
am the shepherd

and sorry for goats
to call the others goats
and
I guess goats are famous for consuming
and
these goats to judge as people
keeping all
if by degree and giving nothing
not
what would have been easier to share
let alone what might have
been harder
to share

and I must welcome sheep
then
outcast the goats
not
for species judgment
except for those of you
people
whom I made
to whom I gave
but chose
not
to give back or out
toward loving benefit of others

so I judge
and so it is as it was
set
so long ago just after Eden


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same verses


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