After this many disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer.
To stay or go
—
He stands bewildered by their unfurling, hurled unbelief.
He sees in their smouldering embered eyes
A return to earthly vows,
Narrowed estuaries of thought
How could they not?
Why believe in a man
With only his flesh to offer.
No better than others.
———-
She stands shaded and affronted.
After all he had offered
Given, mended the broken,
Surely it would be just
Not to doubt but stay
To understand
the question.
——-
Another, not yet decided
looks down at his sandal shod feet
Questions, doubts.
Drags his feet.
To go from him?
Like a child snatched from its mother’s breast
and wander, or cast away his beliefs,
Against all his life’s learning.
To stay with the fount of all being
the word of life.