A Call to Return

We struggle
We fight
We grapple
We climb
We wrestle

with
poverty
shame
embarrassment
violence
war
exclusion
conflict
racism
classism
nothingness.

Then, we taste
victory
success
wealth
status
comfort
opulence
inclusion
power

Yet, forget
the struggle
the fight
the climb
the grapple
the wrestle
our nothingness.

We become
arrogant
insensitive
cold
hardened
aloof
imprisoned in the bunker of “I am better than you.” 

neglecting 
the poor
the disenfranchised
the marginalised
the outcast
the vulnerable
the weak.
Those who
struggle
fight
grapple
climb
wrestle.

There’s a profound call to return to our nothingness, to embrace humility and compassion.

Where Christ is born and resides
wrestling
struggling
fighting
grappling
climbing
with us
yet empowering us.

If we resist the call to return to our nothingness, death will, 
placing us not on a pedestal or presidential chair
but on the raw, rough, raucous ground of nothingness.