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Miracle of Miracles


If I had been there when Jesus turned water into wine
I’d have not been too impressed. How many did he satisfy?
The bartender at the wedding reception and the handful of guests?
Great! Way to go, Jesus! Now what about all of the rest,
The collective, the starving, the thirsty in need of water?
Don’t they deserve to be sated by “The Father”?
The leper must have been most grateful for your magic,
but where is the Mother in your honor! Isn’t that tragic?

I do not mock your “lord on high”,
I simply make the point
that there were so many things that needed attention
so many more things that should have been mentioned
before you were hung on the suffering’s eternal symbol!

What about Hell, Jesus?
Wouldn't the miracle of all miracles be to have erased Hell for all of eternity?
Eternity is an awful long time,
we can’t imagine such an endeavor,
suffering a lifetime and then forever!
You should have devoured Hell
so it would not devour another!

Turn Hell into Heaven, not water into wine!
Reveal paradise to the new eyes of the blind!
Feed the world bread and fish if you were able!
Erase Hell, so humankind sups at Heaven’s table!

God is great!
All Hell’s erased!
Rather dry up from thirst,
rather starve and die,
than burn and scream for all time!

Sorry, Jesus. I love you, brother of mine,
but the miracle for all is found in the Kind,
the truth bestowed upon all, the tree and the river,
the Kingdom of God in Heaven for all time.
Now. Now, not then, not later, now!

Peace, Mark Richard Prime, Me, the Scribe,
Love and Forgiveness, never one without the other



© 2014 Mark Richard Prime

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