we rarely return home to die

we rarely return home to die

tis not where we're born to live

but a different space we've moved to

like jack-rabbits digging holes in some yard

we move about, meeting new friends

then die alone without a plot

often some place outside of home

gone and a smidgen of what we long

we know not what we bring in transition

tho scars drag along with pain, oft times

remembrances of home-land bouts

times and blessings and of rot

when Death arrives at its unexpected hour

we slide into it as if "home" is what we want

wandering, drunk, sickly, insane

away from where we fled years in our head

now heading Home where we belong

yes, heading home where we meant to go

*Reflections of Jean Sulivan:

  -The fundamental reason why Jesus has to die makes the question of responsibility for his assassination pointless.  Every society, Jewish or Gentile, that is founded on money, power, and law, condemns him.  He puts people first, making economics and politics less important than men and women.  In contrast, society, even when it says the opposite, deceiving others as well as itself, considers individuals simply as means.

  -Simply to realize that the Word made flesh ends in the cry that every word repeats: Eloi, Eloi, lama sabactani [My God, my God, why have you abandoned me].

  -Real presence.  We should speak of real absence....Mystics know that God becomes presence in (God's) absence.

  -To say that the resurrection was the cause of the disciples faith is a partial betrayal.  Paul speaks in that way, and through him the Greek way of thinking in mirror-images.  It might be better to say that the resurrection is the expression of the disciple's faith.  That which was external has become internal: love stronger than death.

  -What is more important is the transformation of the way we look at things and our subsequent creative acts.  The resurrection is a forward movement.

  -People come together and remember him, not in order to return to a past that is over, but in order to live in the present, to create a new relationship in harmony with the word that leads them on a difficult path.