Trinity Writers’ Group 2020 Holy Week

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THE DEATH OF CHRIST

by Doris Gwaltney

Weaving in and out of death

I am God and I am man

I am star blown darkness

I am the formlessness of unreflected light

My breath is incense

Thick in the air as on the day of creation

My hands and feet, twisted tight

Against the olive wood,

Drop blood incessantly, nurturing

The ground below and all

Flowers, grass and foliage

My spirit trapped

For thirty two years

Is flying toward the clouds

A blaze of light

The pain a childish memory

But the Father says it is not time

To leave the evils of the earth

And I come floating back

Trysting with the trees

Tempted to smash these poor and paltry people

Who nailed me to a wooden beam

But once again the fist sized muscle

Which many will call the seat of love

Abruptly stops

Again I am released

And my spirit expands into its maker

Love spurts from my body like hailstones

Anointing those

Who lately hammered my flesh to the tree

Forgive them, father, for they know not…

Though I will speak again

I need not

It is enough