Keeping up with God

Another one of David's poems. And a rather fine one, I think:

*Keeping up with God?* 

Keeping up with God?   
Some hope!
Down to earth,
conceived as an outcast,
he cries as a baby,
eludes a child-killer,
flees as a refugee,
seeks political asylum,
is worshipped as royalty
and marked as elected
but grows in obscurity
and disappears from sight

till, tried and tested, he emerges
to defy expectations,
redefine religion,
reorder hierarchies,
alienate authorities,
rip open disgrace and death
and keep all his promises,
welcoming all respondents.

Keeping up with God?
What a hope!


© David Grieve 2007