Shabbat
I started out Shabbat tonight there in the Echo room,
Ironically, the name of it said why I left so soon –
As TCK I did not fit at any level here,
So out I went at their request and no one shed a tear.Of course, this was our family time – I called my wife by phone,
Just as I do each Saturday as I call back to home –
On that same chair, in that same room, as fourteen years ago,
When I stood up against the crowd, and said it was not so.I later found the lady was new honcho for the staff,
And I'd just toasted my career – she freaked, and did not laugh –
Perhaps it would have been all right if I had understood
Apostle I, not Pastor-type, and could not if I would.“A table spread midst enemies”, those words were true tonight;
But even louder were the words which spoke to me just right –
That Abraham left Ur to seek out others just like him,
And left behind the other folks, including all his kin.It seems as he went ‘to himself’ (already down the road),
It was to find community of thought and action bold;
“One God there is, I'm sure of it, eternal, with all power;
So I will others seek out now – I'll leave within the hour.”Melchazedek he stumbled on who thought a lot like him;
Perhaps he studied with that man, filled being to the brim;
So priest he'd be in order that, but it's quite hard to know,
Whatever else that happened there, he helped old Abe to grow.Sometimes we have to move along, seek others just to talk,
And learn about some newer way to carry on our walk.
Not sure just what this means for me, if anything today,
It speaks to me of move along, and find another way.At any rate it Shabbat is for this day and the next,
I hope I learn some Torah more as we go inside text;
My life's on hold, though not as bad as just one year ago,
This center's Echoland-ish room’s now left – as I get whole.navigation