He sees a great crowd

After Mark 6:30-44 

He sees a great crowd

of people come to hear,

to listen, to touch and be

touched, people desperate

to feel the hem of his robe.

His compassion wells up

and overflows upon

these sheep without

a shepherd, gathering

in the roads and hillsides,

waiting. And he does what

he knows to do, what flows

from understanding and 

compassion, and he begins,

he begins,

he begins to teach,

he begins to teach them,

he begins to teach them many things,

there in that wilderness,

that desolate place.

 

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