RAINBOW REVELATION

RAINBOW REVELATION

It happened that
I went to sleep yesterday
and awoke in new skin.
It happened that
no alarm sounded
I awoke a quarter past 10.

In a mob I watched
This day begin…

“You! Rainbow Man!” They shouted
as I stepped fuzzy from my bed
“Rainbow Lamb!” They jeered
those voices filling my head from
many grazing near the wood.

He was speaking to…

An oppressed collection mixed with
those whose who remove hope
who return their favor with necks in nooses
under decorated hanging trees; ornaments on rope.

"For a day," he said "you called me 'Rainbow Man'
and experienced many healings by my hands,
until I was besieged, betrayed, beaten, murdered;
when asked, you replied 'nope'."

I shook, I wept
I heard a voice mine.

To a day again...

It happened that
he’d awakened to cut free
those in swinging graves
with me.

It happened that
we are too confident a flock
returning to bed, reset the clock
he will awaken tomorrow...

A wolf.