just a man

          Jesus is lost
              I can't find him.
                          he's not in my days, my dreams,
                    my prayer.
          I try to remember
             where I left him
          but...
                      the screen is blank
                          I'm stuck on pause.
          I try to replay old stories
                                         memories
                  but the figures are paper,
            the edges curl.
          I read the Bible,
                              but,
          he's just a man
                 some man
          no one I know
                      no one I even want to know.
          I thought I knew him
                                  for awhile
          I thought I had tasted
                      an intimate knowledge
                                  the wine of the heart
          but, it's all erased.