Pottage

Our task not always to question why;

   instead to stretch, to bend and reach,

      sometimes to trust and just get by,

         let circumstance our spirits teach.

In the face of violence or abuse,

   we shouldn’t accept acquiescence’s hour;

      these two really have no excuse;

         nor in the face of oppression’s power.

But when our world and happenstance

   reveal the sham of our control

      and one day offer us the chance

         for grace’s reins to free our soul,

may we be strong and feel so bold

   to give ourselves for one another,

      skip the pottage, remain unsold;

         find and love new sister, brother.

© 2015 Todd Jenkins