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Of Two Mothers

from Iscariot by Daniel J Townsend

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For two thousand years in this garden I’ve grown,
My branches to many a sparrow a home
Through autumn and spring, through sunlight and rain,
I live and I die and I am born again

One morning one mother went walking alone
She carried no load but the loss of her son
And under my branches, in the cool of my shade,
She there met another, her son in the grave

Their tongues got to talking, their tales they did tell,
From babies to young men to sudden farewells
Two women together, two sons and two tombstones,
Too many years crying their tears on their own

“How precious his birth, his first steps and first words,
The songs he would sing and his prayers overheard
‘Look at the sparrows, o mother!’ he’d say
While out in the meadow his brothers did play.”

“I too know those joys,” her companion did sigh
“From forts in the field to the sword by his thigh
He spoke his own mind and he knew his own heart
If you know where you’re going, you know who you are.”

“They strung up my son on the outside of town.
He hung in the air 'til he lay in the ground.”
“My son was hanged, but with no-one around,
It was three days before his dear body was found.”

“My boy was a leader…”
“My boy he was led…”
And then in the silence, no more words were said
For each mother knew by her story’s sad end
The sons they’d thought strangers had once been called friends

For two thousand years in this garden I’ve grown,
My branches to many a sparrow a home
Through autumn and spring, through sunlight and rain,
We live and we die and we are born again

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from Iscariot, released April 17, 2014

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Daniel J Townsend TAS, Australia

"A head full of stories, a soul old enough to have lived them, and a heart young enough to believe in their power to move us."

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