Touch Me Not?
don't touch
soul that star throbs stalker
past hearings' ear
don't touch
star dust plasma burns
spirit must bear
don't touch
light speed space stretches
probe infinite spear
don't touch
evolving dust constellations
thought born clear
although the doors
were locked, Jesus stood in their midst
and said, “May You have peace! ”
then he said to Thomas,
“Put your fingers
here, and see my hands,
and take your hand
and stick it into my side!
Stop being unbelieving
but become believing.... John 20: 26-29
some unbelieving Jews
came from Antioch and Iconium
they persuaded won over the crowds
and they stoned Paul
and dragged him outside the city,
imaging he was dead
(for he was stoned unto death?)
but as the disciples
gathered around him he rose up
and entered back into the city
and on the next day
he left with Barbabas for Derbe
(for Christ defeated death for us) Acts 14: 19-20
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poem by Terence George Craddock
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