Entry

After Matthew 21: 1-11

He’d been here before,

as a child, as a man,

but never like this,

the crowds, the singing,

the cloaks on the road, 

the branches of leaves

waving in the air, even

the surprise of seeing

the king arrive on a colt,

this was the moment,

the time of deliverance,

the time foretold and

expected and desired

and even demanded,

but this was the crowd

who expected earth

and received heaven,

and in three days they

will turn in anger and 

fury, the deliverance

aborted, and hosanna 

became the call

to crucify.

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