Day One --Ash Wesnesday

The Walk

You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
-- Mary Oliver "Wild Geese"


if walking on my knees
meant we walked halfway,
straight ahead, no loitering
if walking on my knees
meant that the door
opened more than the crack
we now peer through,
one both distant and polite
if walking on my knees
meant we stood next
to one another and shared
a silence filled with love
i'd walk on my knees