Inverted

Let us seek out

the tables

we need to flip

the ones that are too full

or too exclusive

those that lack space

for love

to pull up a chair

 

In fact,

let us upend

all the things

that distract us

confine us

box us in

       (or keep others out)

so we can be free

to follow the spirit

of the law

instead of

the letter of it

 

Let us live our lives

with radical acceptance,

this backward way

of offering

blessed belonging

 

Let us be marked by

a countercultural compassion

      that turns heads

and a

gloriously inverted grace

      that turns lives

               upside down

 

Karen Kaiser, Karen Kaiser Poetry (facebook.com) April 20, 2023