Leper

Wayward soul, did you see the way he looked at you? did you see the crowd he
pushed through?
Aimless soul, did you wonder if he’d speak your name? were you so surprised
when he touched your shame?
When we look at his hands filled with thorny crowns
but he’s raising the dead and he’s changing out nouns
with a son gone and died, with a leper’s curse
the blind come unblind and darkness’s reversed
Homeless soul, did you take off your shoes and hang up your coat?
don’t you know when he’s here we’re meant to roam!
ageless soul, did he speak of a fire that does not consume, but waters the soul
till we’re fully bloomed
When we look at his hands filled with thorny crowns
but he’s raising the dead and he’s changing out nouns
with a son gone and died, with a leper’s curse
the blind come unblind and darkness’s reversed