Lisle Ryder Poet Limerick

Feed My Sheep

“Simon, do you love me more than all these?”
“Yes Lord,” he replied while sensing a tease,
     “You know that I love you.”
     “Feed my lambs if you do.”
Peter then began to feel ill at ease.

“Simon, can you be sure that you love me?”
“You know that I love you, won't you agree?”
     “If you will be my friend, 
     then to my sheep attend.”
Peter was wincing but could not foresee – 

a third time Jesus would lower the bar.
“So do you like me. Can you go that far?”
     Now Peter was hurting
     and suddenly blurting,
“You know I love you, to ask seems bizarre.”

Again Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
Now truly I tell you, once you could leap,
     but when you are older
     you'll lean on the shoulder
of someone who'll take you into the deep.”

John 21.15-18

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