Peter's Pensive

 




Peter’s Pensive

A reading of Acts 10:34-43 among other things

I knew those timbers

Their sparkle in the dawn light

And the way they

Shimmied along the sea.

Fish, they held and

I left them.

Followed another who knew

Timber, and other things.

He told stories, healed and

Saw right through me.

Later, I bore witness to his

Hanging on a tree.

It became a cross.

Symbol of death.

But he made it

A sign of new life.

 

Simon C. J. Falk, Easter Sunday, 17 April 2022.

Images from the Sea of Galilee, 2010.




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