Today's reading: John 4:7, 9-11, 13-15
You
ask me
for a drink of water
what am I supposed to say?
it's not the right question
(you shouldn't ask me, anyway;
an exile,
a woman,
a sinner)
so I don't know the right answer
You
ask me
if I wouldn't rather have
Living Water
what am I supposed to say?
thanks but no thanks?
because I'm happy with the painful drought
of my life? because I
love the whispers and stares
of the gossips,
love the loneliness of this well?
so I give you a drink of water--
and you offer me liquid Life
I only wish my humble gift were
abundant enough to
quench your thirst
when you will need it most
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