ADVENT
13.
~John 8
It must have been fear—
that most compelling feeling—
that attached them
to your Jesus. Why else
would anyone follow
a fellow who goes on
and on about above
and below, about
himself and his distant
father? And worse—O
worse!—a fellow who sees
people (like the woman
caught in the act)
as opportunities
for tedious theologizing.
You scared them,
John Gospeller.
They believed they’d be
condemned without
your esoteric creed.
It must have been fear.
Likely, it still is.