The Kingdom

“They asked him (Jesus): When is the Kingdom coming? He replied: It is not coming in an easily observable manner. People will not be saying, ‘Look, it’s over here’ or ‘Look, it’s over there’. Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is already spread out on the earth, and people aren’t aware of it.”—Saying 113, The Gospel of Thomas.

“Saying 113 is an important summation of the worldview reflected in many of Thomas’s sayings, which is that the Kingdom is here now, and people must learn to discern it rather than waiting for some cosmic miracle to bring the Kingdom down to earth.”—Stevan Davies, from The Gospel of Thomas.

In my poem, ‘the Kingdom’ is the Present Moment, and the soldier is the image I created of myself in order to fit into the intellectual world… of past and future.

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