Birmingham: Bodies in the Doorways.
Birmingham: Bodies in the Doorways.
Coventry to Birmingham,
riding the train saves pilgrim feet.
Two choices, the faster journey,
a short hop, with two stops
or the slow scenic crawl,
both arrive at stone platforms at New Street.
Tin voices bark instructions from speakers,
“Do mind the gap!”
Bodies in tune with directions
move upwards on escalators,
as barriers twist and snap.
Discarded tickets
are swallowed up by hungry machines,
until each pilgrim emerges
into the light
of a radiant Birmingham day.
People, so many people
walking, running, talking
quite breathtaking,
at times overwhelming,
no sudden stopping, don’t get in the way.
Sagging bodies adorn the floors
of designer clothes shop doorways
wearing shabby chic, worn out fashion,
dirt splashed charity handouts,
paper cups accessories and discarded dignity.
Homeless and hopeless, a parable of desperate humanity
displaying a genetic weakness, we are all one moment away
from poverty, from decorating with our own brokenness the High Street doorway.
Fr Patrick Brennan May 2025 ©
Source: http://humblepiety.blogspot.com/2025/05/birmingham-bodies-in-doorways.html
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The Bodies in the Doorways in Birmingham is the story of Lazarus at the doorstep of the rich man. We know, from Our Lord’s parabole, of the fate of the rich man, and we know also that dogs licked the sores of the poor man Lazarus before he was taken into the bosom of Father Abraham.
The verses of this poem lick the sores of the homeless, and may they remind us all, the riches, of what charity is all about.
May you be blessed for your reminding of what Christianity is about, Fr Patrick Brennan.