ALMIGHTY TEARS of GOD
This faithful man….a son
Purer than a newborn babe
Became a man misunderstood
Thrown about and derided
Intimidated by Roman soldiers
Abandoned by friends
Judged to be ‘the liar’
Upon the testimony of liars
Viciously scorned by his rabbis
Who pardoned a murderer
Over mercy to their unknown redeemer
Demanding Caesar to proclaim
The most drastic execution:
Crucifixion
But first humiliated, spat upon
Mocked, slapped, scourged
Draped as ‘the King of the Jews’
In a scarlet cape and a crown of thorns
After that…
The stake and two iron spikes
One pierced both hands
The other both feet
Splitting blood-soaked flesh and bone
From this man, a last lament:
‘Father…why have you forsaken me!’
A shuddering last breath
Instantly mid-day became mid-night
The earth quaked violently in horror
Such that the nearby dead
Were thrust from their graves
Jehovah, anguished in his Great Temple
Ripped the cherubic curtain separating
The ‘Most Holy’ from the mere ‘Holy’
From very top to very bottom
Severing forever his covenant
With those who had been his Chosen People
Releasing a cosmic fury of pain, sorrow
And tears the likes of which would wither stars
Were it not for his divine self-control
Watching, as he had to
The ignoble torture of his most noble
Humble obedient faithful servant
His only begotten son
Whose sacrifice refuted forever
Satan’s damning lie:
That men did not have to die!
Yet this son – this man had died
(As had all men before him)
Just as his father had warned all along
However, the son would live again forever
At the right hand of his father
And now sits there
Gently wiping his Father’s tears away
By Jahgirl
9/21/2020