Two explanatory poems about Father / Mother Archetypes

1

Christ meets Peter after the Resurrection

Peter is old

Christ is reborn, rejuvenated, young

He clasps his oldest disciple to his breast:

When you were young

You wore clothes you liked and went wherever you wished

But now in old age

You will put out your hands like a child

To be dressed in clothes others wish you to wear

To be led where they want you to go ...

Peter clasped Jesus for long

And wept

Like a child

2

Mother Mary found Christ dead

It was left to her to clean up the mess

After that he gave that spectacular show:

The Resurrection

To dazzle the world and Time

It wasn’t the first time she was left alone:

At the foot of the Mount of Olives he told her

“Woman, what art thou to me”

At the resurrection he told the other Mary:

Noli me tangere

(Women had become touch-me-nots)

But at 15 Mary felt the womb stir

She took on world-blame to birth god’s son

Then she must’ve felt so alone

So alone and so frightened