Sunday, March 24, 2013

longinus

LONGINUS


THEY SAY HIS NAME WAS LONGINUS
IF THEY KNEW HIS NAME AT ALL
IF HE EXISTED AT ALL

THE NAME MEANS SPEAR
HE WAS NOTED FOR PIERCING CHRIST’S SIDE
WITH A SPEAR
AND HIS DECLARATION OF FAITH
AT CHRIST’S DEATH
NOW THE CENTURION WAS A MAN OF DEATH
SOLDIERS DO NOT EXIST FOR PEACE
BUT FOR THE KEEPING OF PEACE
OFTEN BY BRUTAL METHODS

TO THEM THE END JUSTIFIED THE MEANS

TO THEM DYING WELL
HAD AN ALMOST MYSTICAL MEANING
TO THEM CHRIST HAD DIED WELL

THEY WERE USED TO THE CONDEMNED
CURSING AND SWEARING
PLEADING FOR MERCY
CRYING FOR THEIR MOTHER

BUT NOT CHRIST

THAT
WITH THE EARTHQUAKE

AND OMINOUS
BOILING DARKENING SKY



RAGING WIND
THAT RIPPED THE TEMPLE VEIL
PROMPTS HIS AWESTRUCK CRY
TRULY
THIS WAS A SON OF GOD


FRANK A VOLLMER

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