K.L. Johnston

Yeshua's Sister

He had sisters,

their names forgotten

to history

but I’d bet he was

their favorite

brother, the one who

listened,

the storyteller,

the patient one.

I would believe you

if you told me

that the youngest

of Mary’s girls wept

when he left home

and later came

bringing spices

on that cold morning.

K.L. Johnston received her degree in English and Communications from the University of South Carolina. Her poetry has appeared in literary journals and anthologies since the 1970s, exploring the connections of the physical and spiritual world and the life between. You can follow her on Facebook at  “A Written World.”