Palm Sunday

A colt, Luke writes

A child horse.

The weight of the man

Quite hard to bear---

Simon, bearer of the cross;

A colt, bearer of the Savior.

How was it that the disciples

Found this colt?

How was it that the owners

Did not cry "Thief!"

How slowly the colt

Crept into the city,

Carrying his heavy burden.

And how far did he

Bear the savior?

All the way til tears fell

For the Holy City?

What did that colt become,

What character of horse?

Did he later and older

Becoming soldier's steed

Carry Cornelius' men to find the Rock?

Or did he pull a grand Ethiopian chariot

unable to outrun Philip and grace?

Or did he return home

pondering this thing in his child-like heart?

And somehow know, through the horse-sense

God gave him

That it was worth the burden---

it was light---

And that glory loomed ahead?

+Written Palm Sunday morning, SKCJ 2007