His name has been
thrown around and used in
the human desire
for gain,
for pain,
for causes,
and all the religious clauses
that make up obscure
statements of
faith and belief.
But for me
this wandering teacher
of The Way
from dusty Palestine,
this man of vision grand,
is my guru, not because of
some desperate belief,
but because be stood for
the ordinary and the everyday,
and lived his life
in the face of strife
for the other,
and challenged the
politics of suppression
for both men and women.
Jesus is my guru,
for he stood emphatic
in the breaches,
and gave radical compassion
for the undeserving,
and helped us all,
across the canyons of time,
understand our own
capacity for the divine.
12/12/2016