How did it feel to hang
By nails
And wait for a death
You were born to endure?
Created by The Father
As a symbol
Of His power
To save
A crumbling humanity.
He gave you life
For it to be ripped from your body.
No saving grace for you,
No end to the pain,
No Lord to help you.
The Father,
The Protector,
The Divine Creator
Silently watching
As your human pain
Pours
From your human body.
Did you suffer a lifetime
For every second
That you remained
In that earthly body,
Punctured by earthly hands,
Jeered by earthly voices,
Cried for by earthly women?
Did Mary know the gift
Weaned upon her bosom
Would depart this world so heinously?
Did She trust
In the promise of Heaven,
Did She believe
In the prophecy of Angels-
Even at the end
When your screams
Shuck the Heavens?
Did you question your Father’s promise
Of a seat by His side
While the cold nails
Split your flesh
And the shimmering blade
Slaughtered your sides?
A Jew hated by Jews,
A Jew betrayed by Jews.
Did you foresee
On the cross
How the world would shake
In your aftermath?
Your Father sacrificed you
For the salvation of humanity
But ever since
That salvation
Has waged wars
In his name.
He first split the Earth
From the Heavens
And then he let man
Split the Earth in two.
Did you die in vain
Or did you die to show that the innocent must suffer?
But what is lost most through suffering
Is innocence.
Eye lids stitched open
So no pain goes unseen,
Voices raised
So we hear each and every scream.
Today
The crosses around our necks
Are adorned with jewels and pearls,
That day-
On the cross,
As you rose from humanity,
Did you foresee
The war of the worlds?