Werner Chapel
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god is
what I don't know
high Gothic arches pierce the sky
to commemorate a body
washed ashore on the bank of the Rhine
that inspired a wave of pogroms in 1287
a body, that became a saint
a body, that became a pilgrimage
a body, that became an apology in 1996
for
"...the curse that we wrongly
put on the name of the Jew...
because we didn't know what
we were doing." *
so, you can know god
but not know what you are doing
for fifteen hundred years
* John XXIII: Penitential Prayer "We Recognize..." Spoken June 3, 1963 at Vatican II
Copyright © Steven Young | Year Posted 2022
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