José Olivarez — No Time to Wait
Poetry Unbound
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No Time to Wait by Jose Oliveres
The poem mentions salvation twice. The second time it says there was a priest offering salvation later and there are Mexicans with no time to wait. Here you find a parish that's doing the work of praying and going to sacrament, etc., but it's also supporting people. If you want to say God working in the people around you, in the kindness, in the support, in the gossip, in asking for a sip of your beer,. That is the salvation that was everywhere in the moment. You didn't need to wait for it because it knew the urgency and it said, here it is.
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