Send them away

After Mark 6:30-44 

Surrounded by thousands,

the thousands who thronged

to see him and to listen,

his people say what

would be expected

in the circumstances:

It is late, there isn’t exactly

a restaurant or a supermarket 

or even a convenience store 

nearby, so send them away

to find something to eat,

we have no way to feed them,

and not even enough to feed

ourselves.

Feed them, he says.

With what, they say, do you

have the small fortune

it will take to feed them?

He smiles.

Feed them, he says.

 

Photograph by Jaanus Jagomagi via Unsplash. Used with permission.