Fallen: teaching telos; telos tells us
They’re made for swimming, spawning; swept salmon
Swim against currents, past predators, plus
Spend energy; death is all too common.
Piscivorous streams nourish feeding fry,
Decay bringing life; why one must first die
In the first place. Sacrificial. Now try
Our own species: to know and love our Why,
Who walked inclined during the heated passion,
And spent body and blood to forever feed
Us. God becoming grain and grape, station
To station, but first He would have to bleed,
Die, and rise so that the rest of us could
Live life everlasting, dying on the Wood.
Gary Edward Geraci
Dying to our selfish and self-interested ways we become more like Christ. Written in the Shakespearean sonnet tradition. “Piscivorous streams…” fish eating streams in that the decaying salmon ‘feed’ the water with nutrients that will one day feed the young salmon fry.
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