To, Not Past

So he was old enough to retire

to become a former PR guy, and

he suspected he had never really

been a PR guy so what had he

done for forty years, except try

to convince people to talk

with each other not

past each other

because he knew what we all do

is talk past each other

as we tweet

post our secrets to Facebook

trade Instagram snarkiness

because it is better to score

than to talk, than to care 

So he wrote, he wrote

because that is what he did

that is who he was forty years

after he first tried to convince

people to talk with each other

not at

not past

not at

but to

but with

because Jesus talked

with us

to us

and he changed the world 

Photograph by George Hodan via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.