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Missing the Banquet

By Anita Mathias

Missing the banquet
The same story, always.
No room in palaces, or
middle-class lounges. So
he goes where few
would choose to.  Down. 
Among those working for small
 wages, hemmed
 in by circumstance, forced
 to be silent, still,
and awake
to see
the glory
Of an angel-streaked sky,
and hear the promise
 of Joy:
A Saviour.
And His simple, easily
 missed gift:
Peace.
Whatever I may miss
In the hurly-burly of my days
Let it not be you,
Elusive, beloved one
Or the great banquet
To which you summon me,
In which you are the appetizer,
Meat and sweet.
Let me feast with you before
 The day rushes in on me,
And through its quiet interstices.
May this tragedy not be mine:
Too busy with the field, the cow,
the barn to revel in the banquet
Squinting at the black and white to do list,
Missing the dazzle of the rainbow.


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Wandering Between Two Worlds: Essays on Faith and Art

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