The second time

After Luke 19:41-46

For the second time

he weeps, once

for a friend, newly dead,

once for the city

of unbelief, the city

of rejection, the city

which did not listen,

would not listen and so

its stones would be

thrown down, its children

thrown down with the stones.

For the second time,

acts of alpha and omega,

he clears away, sweeping

the tables of the sellers

of lambs and doves,

scattering the animals,

scattering the coins,

scattering the sellers,

the lambs escaping

their pens,

the doves escaping

their cages.

He weeps, he scatters,

he scatters, he weeps,

another time.

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