Visage Marred

visage marred
Your beard plucked out
hairs between the fingers of the self-righteous
my Lord my Lord I love You
I kneel at the foot of the Cross
with weeping women and mother Mary

You left the throne room of heaven
33 years lived with mere skin
left the worship and praise
of the seriphim and cherubim
left the presence of the Father
left the Holy! Holy! Holy!
utterances of the stars
and the universe of your
creation

For a woman
men rejected
a woman at the well
insignificant
a woman like
Mary Magdalene
full of devils
and the adulteress
whose dress was shredded
by fingers
like daggers

I with them
spit on You
I with them
wagged our tongues
I with them
denounced You
to derision
I with them
humiliated You
Yet for Glorious
love of me
for Glorious
love of you
for love of us

Jesus, lovely Jesus
descended the skies
to wrap me in His
heart, to hide me
in His soul
O’ Perfect Man
My Perfect Love
miracle of man
how little is understood
how little appreciated
capture me
to free me!
release me
from this prison
of sin
I have been condemned to
Adam and Eve
architects of my sin
so insidious
loved you as I do
so You covered their loins
with sacrificed animal
blood required
the price of true life

the Cross blessed me
the Cross birthed me
the Cross redeemed me
to a gracious state
we exist in the madness
of our vile and violent
natures
curse the wonders of our
being
hatred the language of our
world

weep the trial of error
lost child in a numb and
dumb stupor of sin
blind sheep running
toward the cliff of our
addictions
Jesus True Shepherd
deliver me away
from my death
carry me away
from the delight
of suffering

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