Tuesday, December 24, 2024

The Kiss



A disciple’s Kiss

put your arms in shackles


The answer lay in the rabbi’s question

son of God, accused of 

God conspiracy 


Another denied three times

You stood incriminated

in the court of the two kings


The king’s wife who’d dreamt you

warned, doubt an epitome of honesty;

put your necks on a guillotine


Failing to find fault

the kings washed their hands but

the leaders dared to crucify

the Lord’s son with a murderer


The frenzied town was an accomplice

lashes tearing into the flesh

carrying a cross that 

drenched in blood 

you teetered toward 

the resting place of skulls


Climbing on the cross 

you carried the burden,

the agony of the blind 

incapable of 

seeing their inner light


Your wail emerged toward the sky

as the single voice of Humanity

the Darkness and Eclipse of the crucifixion

engulfed the Calvary Mount


The moon froze, soaking in fresh blood


Your life, words, actions

aren’t they a deluge of compassion?

a grace that surrounds life?


Not only the life

even your death is dedicated to us

for us 

you are the light, the truth

and the way.


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