the garden olivet

he came back to the garden, and an angel asked the men why they stared at the sky? bewildered and mystified, ascension

at the garden, where they often met,
an olive grove where
He had spoken of the end,
and they had waited for a colt
that took Him to the center of town.

He bled at the garden
and asked them to keep spirit,
but they were weak,
while He sweat and spoke to God.

six hundred men came—one
leading was His friend.
“whom do you seek?”
they asked for the Nazarene.

then His friends awoke
threatening them with the sword
but He chose the cup.

forty days later
he came back to the garden,
and an angel asked the men
why they stared at the sky?
bewildered and mystified,
for He was not there;
they could not answer 
the rhetorical question.