Someone else's thoughts.

Hey friends,

I cut this poem out of the bulletin cover at a First Friday service and taped it to my wall. I was reading it the other night laying in bed, and remembering how much I liked it the first time I saw it. I don't know who wrote it, or where it came from. But here are someone else's thoughts on the cross:

I SIMPLY ARGUE

THAT THE CROSS

BE RAISED AGAIN

AT THE CENTER

OF THE MARKET-

PLACE AS WELL AS

ON THE STEEPLE

OF THE CHURCH.

I AM RECOVERING THE CLAIM THAT JESUS WAS 

NOT CRUCIFIED IN A CATHEDRAL BETWEEN TWO

CANDLES, BUT ON A CROSS BETWEEN TWO THIEVES,

ON THE TOWN GARBAGE HEAP--ON A CROSSROADS

SO COSMOPOLITAN THAT THEY HAD TO WRITE HIS 

TITLE IN HEBREW AND LATIN AND GREEK, AT

THE KIND OF PLACE

WHERE CYNICS TALK

SMUT, AND THIEVES

CURSE, AND SOLDIERS

GAMBLE, BECAUSE

THAT IS WHERE HE

DIED AND THAT IS

WHAT HE DIED ABOUT.

AND THAT IS WHERE

WE SHOULD BE AND

WHAT WE SHOULD

BE ABOUT.

Love,

Allison