Workshop leader

Yesterday counted as 6 CEUs.  The workshop title was near perfect, as was the morning presentation.  The afternoon presentation, how to implement the morning's learnings, reminded me of why I am first and foremost a priest, and why They deserve to be treated like Us, and really, how I have moved back to the liminal space between Us and Them.  I had this same experience in Domestic Violence Training last winter.  I remember driving home, all those Saturdays, with the sun in my eyes.

The workshop leader

Had me

At the word Go

Then

After lunch she advocated

Lying

Or perhaps telling

A small fib

If it would make things

Go smoother.

If I had left

After lunch

I would never have heard her speak

Of Us and Them,

Them and Us.

All would have remained right

With the world.

And perhaps

The sun would have not blinded me

All the way home.