Who left home at 33.
He abandoned a woman
supposed to be his mother.
And he didn’t return to bury his father.
At least that’s what his close friends –
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John –
kept telling me.

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He had no ambition
and told everyone he knew
that he had no ambition.
And worse! 
He went about declaring
in a tone miles away from caring
that a career
was not much of an inspiration.

 

The poor poor mother 
struggled on her own.
Not much is known
about how she managed.
But I do remember his close friends –
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John –
telling me that she met him again
when he needed to be bandaged.

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And then – well, he died. 

 

Now, I also remember a God 
very much like this fellow.

 

Wonder why one 
could not save the other.