God sends everyone
to Nineveh
to prophesy,
but, Jonah-like,
we turn our backs
and try to flee.
Can you flee
God's good command?
Do you seek
the belly of a whale?
Return, wanderer,
and bless the Nineveh
you're bound for.
Poems
Nineveh-bound
From the August 1986 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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