Perennial Problem

Date added: 29/05/2020

PERENNIAL PROBLEM

Into Egypt,

   Joseph was sold,

   rose to the heights,

   and saved my people.

Out of Egypt,

   Moses was freed,

   received my Law,

   and led my people.

Out of Egypt,

   I called my Son,

   brought by family,

   renewing my people.

Threat of death passed over,

   bypassing Judea,

   Galilee beckons,

   Nazareth welcomes,

   my Refugee.

Tragically, later,

   home town rejects

   home-grown Prophet,

   who cites my acts

   for people outside.

Unsightly reaction incited:

    my perennial problem.

© Graham Kings, Nourishing Connections (Canterbury Press, 2020).

Commissioned and first published in Andrew Wheeler, Desire of the Nations: The Magi, their journey and the Child (Seimos Press, 2015) and on Covenant January 2016.