Origins, 3

We don't have

what some people consider

sufficient documentation

of how it began.

They might ask

for somewhat impossible things.

They want

a record

of a life

that in its time

would have been

a quiet one,

weaving its way

through channels

both expected

and otherwise

on its way

to destiny,

an itinerant preacher

and healer

a messiah

in an age

when everyone expected

a crusader,

certainly not someone

dead on a cross

regardless of what happened

three days later.

This might be asking

too much.

What would you expect to find?

Preacher embraced

by those who found him

a nuisance?

Noted by those

who would have dismissed him?

A record of his ministry?

As it happened?

I don't think so.