Water and Wine
Water and Wine
it is a
matter of belief
a religious persuasion
that the conversion
was a miracle
unquestioned..
marking a tribe..
might we find
an expression of
this astonishing story
for a more universal
understanding..
to his mother
he was direct:
that his hour had
not yet come..
how we ask is
this related to
the rest of the story..
water
stands forth as our
essence divine..
wine
for all experience
for lives seeming
to be separate..
the Cana conversion
calmly asserts: wine
is made of water..
a new hour
will know suffering
born of fear and desire
a forgetting of Cana..
wine is resurrected
recognized as water
our essence clarified
as a miracle unveils...
(ref: John 2: 1-11)
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