Like a whirlpool

For my friends, all of them.

Like a whirlpool
The Church as a whole
Roils
With new understandings
Caught up
With old understandings
Meanwhile
Two women
Walk down the aisle
In wedding dresses
Two men
Stand before
The minister
Make their promises
To one another.
I wish it weren't
So hard.
Like a whirlpool
The church
Roils
Around
And
Around
Once again.
Two women.
Two men.
The Church