Does Any One Come To A Court Room Poem by Frank Papaycik

Does any one come to a Court Room
Together - it seems - One-by-One
Court Rooms most certainly are not
Noah’s Arc - or de Iris

So many - Two out of Three - So
Young - eighteen to twenty what ever
Then all - The-In-Betweens - They
Seem to have a Some One a long

The eighteens to twenty-what ever
Why a lone -
Machismo of the Body
Machismo of the Soul

Or - I fear - is he simply
A lone - Family - Mother - Father
Siblings - Spouse - Partner - Friend
Friends - Where - If you are - why

Are you letting him go - sitting a lone
Even Christ in the garden had friends
Albeit sleepy - armed They - not He
Not a lone - in his Gethsemane


Even Christ a long the Via Dolorosa
Had Companions - The Women of Jeru
Salem - Don’t weep for me - Simon
The syrene - picked up the burden

Even Christ didn’t carry his cross a lone
Even at Golgatha - Even at Calvary