Mary Mary Magdalene, <br />what do all those stories mean? <br />Mary, Mary, is it true, <br />Jesus had a thing for you? <br /> <br />Mary, Mary – He lay with you? <br />Mary, Mary, tell me true <br />Mary, Mary, red hair wild, <br />did He leave you great with child? <br /> <br />Mary, was your love so steady, <br />that you had had His kids already? <br />Mary, Mary, at the Cross, <br />did it feel a gain or loss? <br /> <br />Mary, Mary – on that third day, <br />what was it like with the stone rolled away? <br />Mary, Mary, running there with love, <br />what did you think when He rose above? <br /> <br />Mary, Mary – what was it like, after? <br />Were there tears or joyful laughter? <br />Mary, Mary – the kids you had – <br />did they turn out like their Dad? <br /> <br />Mary, Mary, whore redeemed, <br />did it work out like you dreamed? <br />Mary, Mary – your afterlife – <br />was it mostly love, or mostly strife? <br /> <br />Mary, Mary, were you worshipped or despised <br />As Mary’s daughter-in-law, Mrs. Christ? <br />Mary, Mary, did you stay, <br />or feel you had to take the kids away? <br /> <br />Mary, Mary, with so much love, <br />did you, too, rise to heaven above? <br />Mary, Mary, in the sky, <br />all we ask are the reasons why… <br /> <br />Mary, Mary Magdalene, <br />What is really true? What does it really mean?<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mary-mary-magdalene/
