Categories: uncategorized
Date: 31 July 2011 11:49:01
Touching the robe
It's a risk to approach
An act of desperation
Signifing they can do their worst
For her offensive presence.
She has felt their oppression
In her lonliness and fear
They can hurt her no more
The pain - psychological and physical - runs too deep.
He signifies hope though,
A last dash for freedom
Before accepting her place
As an outcast in society
He is not concerned with legalism
But with love and mercy.
She reaches his robe
And in the touch of the hem
Finds love and healing
A sense of completeness
Lost too many years before.
She can take her place again
As a full member of the group.
Yet she'll never quite lose
The feelings of those years
Lost simply because of who she was
Who she became.
The challenge he gave
When she touched the hem
Was how to use her wholeness
To help others
The excluded community she'd been part of
For too many years.
by Tractorgirl