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Pilate to his wife, Claudia A Roman soldier speaks Rabbi Jochanan muses Mary speaks Simon complains Veronica reflects A Nazarene speaks They speak The Magdalene meditates Salome, mother of Zebedee's sons, watches A soldier talks to Jesus The centurion speaks 13th Station John, the Beloved, speaks Joseph of Arimathaea speaks |
The Way of the Cross 13 Voices heard in a crowd Poetry by W.G. Hughes Copyright © 1979 by W.G. Hughes |
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(John, the Beloved, speaks)
To speed their deaths Rome breaks the legs and arms Of those who hang beside him. With a lance They pierce his side with lordly arrogance (Messiahs, dead, can wreak no further harm!). And now that he is dead, past countercharm, His corpse is ours by legal circumstance, To get his murder out of sight perchance, Lest his disciples meet and plot alarms.
“Woman, behold your son!” he said. His knurled Hands, feet, unnailed, we take him down And lay him in her lap whom once he made His mother, now the mother of all the world. And lovingly she cradles him, uncrowns, Him, softly crooning a mother’s serenade.
V. We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, R. Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.
The Pietà - Lenten Study 2008 - Allegories of Heaven |
Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross
