Daniel

Is the child
who never learned
to speak in lies,
and who suffered
endless false fathers,
brutal and misleading.
His own gentle inner skin
was scorched by prisons
and the blasphemies
of a violent culture
drunk on the blood
of the Lamb.
He brings the sun
of the beatitudes
to those beyond the pale
and molesting reach
of churches and society.
He cannot see
what we are honored
to behold:
the shower of light,
the hovering dove.
He cannot hear
the tender Father say
what we drink in
full mercy:

"This is again

my beloved,

hear him-"

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