Tears over a city

Mt of Olives, 13 December 2010

Trailing wet on the slippery path
Down the Mt of Olives
Looking out to Jerusalem
Sheeted in rain
Sparkling still
Holy Week's pilgrimage
Disciples mostly unaware
Doing tasks – donkeys and food,
A place to eat
Pausing at Dominus Flavus'
Tear drop on the mountain side

And the window framing the city
Still running with tears
Now seen through cross and cup
Still plenty to weep over
Even more now we've eaten
Of the Tree of this Land.

To Jerusalem and confrontation
we too must now go
In your footsteps
We follow

And Jesus wept.