Who for Love

based on Mark 10:17-22 He looked at him and seeing, he loved him-- This man waiting for the answer to come, This man who hoped in the law of his limbs. Who held everything, left nothing undone. But he was undone and with a word, "One thing you still lack," the poor rabbi said, "Sell all you have--be delivered of your hoard Make God your only treasure instead." In this miserly, moneyed moment of time His dis-heartened heart chose to trust Only the good which he could call “mine". And he gave himself to that which would rust. Away in sorrow his heart's wealth he bore Empty of the treasure who for love became poor.

© Randy Edwards 2016 artwork: Alexandre Bida #christianity #poetry #sonnet