scatteredprayerbeads:

THE ADVENT REVOLUTION

if you are content now
you will be devastated then

for when the world is turned on its head
all your riches will go spilling into space.

a voice cries out in the wilderness
cries out: prepare the way! prepare –
for what? for peace? perhaps, eventually

but first a revolution – woe to you
(to us) who sit too comfortably! for soon
all thrones will be upturned, and those who served
as footstools wear the crown!

(o come, Emmanuel! come and turn
the whole world upside down!)

if you are satisfied now
you will be disconsolate then

when all that succeeded in filling you up
is razed to the ground to make way for a table

built of once-rejected stones – the ones
too crooked, too jagged, too small,
too broken to ever be chosen before

…will those of you (of us) accustomed to the place of honor
accept the humbler seats at the table when the ones
once trampled underfoot stand at its head?