The angels stared in wonder,
Across the galaxies there was a quiver;
It was beyond all expectations,
The grimmest event since the earth’s
Foundation.
The tears of Jerusalem’s wives and mothers,
And the spikes driven in fiercely by the roman
soldiers,
Formed an eerie symphony, as eternity
Watched a man killed, who was either mad or
Divinity;
Raucous laughter rose from among the rabbinic
rank.
Mary looked on, her sturdy heart sank.
They were mocking her baby, calling him a liar;
Naked! He hung on a tree – Yeshua, son of a
Carpenter.
Worse than the whacks of the roman whip,
It was more excruciating than the pain of seeing
Mary weep.
As the earth tossed and turned,
The fires of hell raged and burned...
Then it began – the reason for it all,
A plan that had been in motion even before the fall.
In a frenzied rush, all sins raced to the cross,
Sickness, sorrows, all were sucked in by a divine
Force;
Death and hell shuddered at the very thought,
They had been hoodwinked by Adonai’s plot.
They latched on to the ‘madman’, the ‘fraud’…
The one who claimed he could give the Spirit as
a reward;
Humanity’s sins past, present and yet to come
Made the charlatan’s bruised body their home
“Eloi! Eloi!” He hollered at the heavens
“Lama Sabachthani!” For a fraction of eternity
He felt forsaken
Behind the veil hidden from mortal sight!
All sins were forgiven, swallowed up by
Emmanuel’s light.
At the foot of the cross the centurion stared in
wonder
“Truly HE is the Son of God” …he muttered.