MARY MAGDALEN

MARY MAGDALENE



I SING OF A MAIDEN
BURIED IN MYTH AND MYSTERY
WHOM JESUS CURED OF SEVEN DEVILS
SEVEN MEANING TOTAL
WHAT WERE THE DEVILS
HERE LEGEND BEGINS
WERE THEY SICKNESS SUCH AS EPILEPSY
OR WERE THEY SINFUL BEHAVIOR
SUCH AS PROSTITUTION
WE DO NOT KNOW
WHAT WE DO KNOW
IS THAT HER LIFE WAS TORN APART
BY SEVEN DEVILS
WHOSE NAME WE DO NOT KNOW

WHAT WE DO KNOW
IS THAT SHE WAS FAITHFUL
TO THE END AND BEYOND
AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS
WHEN ALL BUT HIS MOTHER AND JOHN HAD FLED
SHE STAYED
STAYED AT THE FEET OF A CRIMINAL
CHARGED WITH SEDITION
UNDER CONDITIONS WHERE SOMETIMES
THE SOLDIERS
WOULD SLAY ANYONE SYMPATHETIC
TO THE CONDEMNED
AS A WAY OF STAMPING OUT
FURTHER INSURRECTION
SHE STAYED

LOVE AND GRATITUDE
THE TEARS RUNNING DOWN HER FACE
TO HER HE HAD ONLY DONE GOOD
HE HAD CALLED HER BACK
TO BEING A HUMAN BEING
HE HAD RESTORED HER SENSE OF DIGNITY
AND WORTH

SHE STAYED
WHERE ELSE WOULD I GO SHE THOUGHT
HE HAS GIVEN ME BACK MY HEART AND MY SOUL
HE HAS GIVEN ME BACK MY JOY

SHE SAW HIM TO THE TOMB
AND WAITED IMPATIENTLY
FOR THE DAY TO GO AWAY
SO SHE COULD TEND HIS BODY
THEN VERY EARLY IN THE MORNING
WHEN THE DAY WAS JUST A PROMISE
SHE WENT TO THE TOMB
AND MET A GARDENER
A TRUE GARDENER
WHO HAD PRUNED HER LIFE
TO MAKE IT BETTER
HEARD THE GARDENER
AND KNEW THE VOICE

HE SENT HER RUNNING
TO SPREAD THE WORD
AND SHE RAN
TO THE APOSTLES
SHE RAN
WITH THE APOSTLES
SHE RAN
WORKING DILIGENTLY
IN THE GARDEN
TELLING THE GARDENER'S STORY
SHE RAN
CARRYING LIGHT
LIKE CANDLES BEING LIT AND PASSED
AS AT EASTER
SHE RAN
OFF TO MYTH AND LEGEND

BUT WHAT IS TRUE
IS THAT FINALLY
SHE RAN
BACK TO THE ARMS OF JESUS
AND KNEW FINAL PEACE

FRANK A VOLLMER