Glory Comes in Love

When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once. Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, 'Where I am going, you cannot come.' I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."  - John 13:31-35

He drove the majestic boulevard

his onyx black Mercedes shining

his thoughts wandered from board room

to stock rise and then to cabernets with legs

his mind queried and raced and fumbled

searching for something in him

that could ascend and hover above the ground

and find its way to the infinite light

until his car stopped at the crash the death

the injured child the woeful mother

and he stooped and wiped blood and

took his laundered shirt to bandage

and swaddled the whole mess in his soul

and sat and cried with those who cried

and wiped the boy’s dirty feet

and in a thin drip of light saw the glory