JUST AFTER 4 AM

 

JUST AFTER 4 AM

     “And all that it required was single-minded obedience.”

              --Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

Karen asks me,

What time is it?

What are you doing up?

Looking for my phone.

I got up to read

and didn’t have

my notebook

or my phone.

Didn’t want the phone

only wanted it charged.

Here it is at the foot of the bed

and my notebook

was in my backpack.

Now there’s this page

and Bonhoeffer in my hands.

Jim Bodeen

13 September 2024