Suddenly,
A loving smile radiated from his lips
Whose truth they understood more than his words:
“take,
eat;
this is my body”
Peter took the bread.
Peter put it to his lips.
Peter did not understand.
Puzzled stares
Dart towards each other
Finding no answers in their search.
The moment’s silence
Draws
Out.
(Though they felt his light,
they understood not his words.
But he could feel it in their eyes…)
His hands lifted the clay cup from the wood table.
“drink from it,
all of you”
Peter stepped forward.
Peter drank from the cup,
Peter felt the warmth radiate from his center,
And yet he did not understand
Still fettered in the shackles of his worldly birth
He watched
Puzzled
As the others put it to their lips.
The wine
Presented no sign to those expecting:
The simple drink from the rough cup
Sat humbly in the shepherd’s hand;
Worldly to those who did not yet know Him.
“This is my blood”
But no blood flowed from his veins.
No cut violated his body
And no bitter taste of salt and iron lingered in their mouths.
But suddenly Peter understood
As his thoughts brushed against God’s perfection.
Breaking free from the world’s tethers,
To accept his present, divine birth:
Given by Himself.
Given by Christ’s revelation:
He revealed himself in the cup,
In the wine,
In the faces of his followers,
In the dirt floor and thatched ceiling,
In the eyes:
For the first time
He shared the eyes of his beloved teacher
Who cast his gaze into the depths of his own.
Behind the eyes of the son of man
He saw the infinite identity of his father’s smile
That bore itself on the son’s complexion
Who lived there in his father’s words
As they were given to him by his faith
That kept him in the moment of his father’s unfolding creation.
He did not know what it was to be lost
Until God found him in his blind questioning
And struck all ego from his mind
And blessed his tongue with these words:
“This is Truth
This is God
This is Christ”