I positioned myself in the Atrium
at the food court tables strategically
as not to be in other people's spaces
As I tackled the Panda with my chopsticks
an elderly perhaps Arabic couple shuffled by
not a black sinister looking
but an arrangement of colorful burkas
or shawls that are to mostly
cover their faces
It was only came as an afterthought
I wondered if I got up n' politely
said excuse me
I just want you to know in my Book
you and any of your friends n' relatives
are welcome here
n' please forgive me it's not to be patronizing
it's just with recent travel ban etc
I don't want you to feel alienated by me
in this supposed land of the free
For though I'm compelled to arise
n' go over this Jordan in The Lord's Strength
Power n' Might
And never of course to skimp on the bags
of Truth
But I'm to have my attenae up in mercy
to seek the likes of Rahab who'd heard
of the fame of His Name
n' wanted to dwell in that marvelous Light
It's as though The Lord said hey-
I've already built My Bridge
when I set aside My Glory
to put on flesh in the filth
n' mucky miry waters
of this world's sesspool
To simply walk up to someone
or cross the street over the gutter
I fished you out of as you rode along
aimlessly like a popsicle stick
when you still thought your sin
n' substances were cool
This isn't a box girder or intricate suspension
project I'm expecting you to undertake
It's not like the golden span from the Presidio
to Sausalito or multi layered laned Bay
or architecting a drawbridge
or formidable one in Brooklyn
I'm asking you to make
But the fact is while you're safely
on the shore
there's others on the other side still
that' re being jeered at n' railed on
n' just plain hated
N' I've got way too many in this sorry huddle
I just need even one to break away
n' not to bash 'em with deep Theology
or even freak them out speaking of My Blood
or romancing your scrapes n' crimes
with your testimony
But perhaps merely a warm invitation
to say like that church potluck
'Cause there's a span-n' it's in time
quickly abated.
1-31-2017 Duncan R. M. Ferguson
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