[Dialogue] Maundy Thursday/Holy Week Poem: "Do You Know What I Have Done?"

[elliestock at aol.com]

                                         DO YOU KNOW WHAT I HAVE DONE?
 
                                             A table, a chair
                                             a tired soul, baring
                                            feet encrusted with journey’s dust—
                                           cleansing needed, but who will come?
 
                                        A basin, a towel
                                        a Servant, on knee trowelling,
                                        feet washing—freeing from clinging crud—
                                        do you know what I have done?
 
                                        A table, a chair
                                        a broken soul, searching—   
                                        heart crushed by burdens unending—
                                        will you do what I have done?
 
                                        A basin, a towel
                                        a servant soul finding
                                        Hope reborn, now helplessness shedding—
                                        called to do what I have done?
 
                                        A table, a chair
                                        a basin, a towel
                                       a longing world waiting, creation baiting
                                       first be last; if greatest, be least
                                       an example setting, on behalf of all serving
                                       Spirit strength surging
                                       New Heaven, New Earth converging.
                                       Do you know what I have done?
                             
                                        ~ ejhs





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