Led by donkeys

 

Mark 11:7-11

Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it; and he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields.

Then those who went ahead and those who followed were shouting,

“Hosanna!

Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!

Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David!

Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

Then he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple; and when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

Led by donkeys 

Synonymous with protest

A tale or tail as ancient as time

alerting those who willingly

go with the flow

to stop

and smell the droppings left behind

The carnage of political promises

that deliver hardship and suffering

a trail that if stepped in

sticks around

with its cloying smell of decay

May our Palm Sunday processions

call out today’s political shenanigans

and call us to account

to stand with those in this age

who need saving

from all that empire continues to leave in its wake

locally and globally

as the procession moves on.

(Liz Crumlish Palm Sunday 2024)