Remedy

Too Late—two words

that lay heavy

in the tight confines

of human language

squeezed next to

the word impossible.

But the Christ will not be

so constrained.

Ask Lazarus. Ask Mark.

Remember the woman

healed of a hemorrhage

a disease no doctor

could remedy?

All she did

to secure her healing

was touch the hem

of Christ’s cloak.

Then there was

the dying child

the Resurrection

was delayed in reaching

before she expired.

Yet, one should never

confuse delay

with denial.

In ordained time

Messiah made quick work

of the young girl’s

perfect healing.

“Talitha cum,” the word

he spoke, and speaks, to spark

every soul inclined to listen—

the dead of heart, mind, spirit.

Rise up! he said

and the child rose.

It was just another healing

and resurrection on the sly.

All power. No limits.

One Lord.

Mark 5:21–43