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Sacrifice
3/12/2004 8:51 AM
I feel the sting of death rise up in me
While the world looks on, in awe
The sweat of my body falls
Like a waterfall
Of crimson red
As I am bound on this tree
Once living, now dead
My heart beats hard
And I’m short of breath
As if I ran for miles without rest
My hands burn with a piercing throb of pain
So deep, it brings me to weep like droplets of red rain that stains
I feel naked and ashamed
But I cast no hatred or blame
My desire is to love; to save
The lost, the dying, and those enslaved
From this dismal world filled with plagues.
I cringe at the ongoing torment
My body yearns for ointment
To cure the stabs and lacerations
That inflict my frail frame
In this mortal incarceration
The irritation slowly drives me insane
With no alleviation with my hands bound
My ear aches from the mob’s sounds
Cursing me to Come Down
To prove I am the heir to the crown
My heart breaks at their unbelief
My soul in anguish as I am forsaken
Abandoned by my friends
Laughed and scorned at by Satan.
Why hast thou deserted me;
Stranded; forgotten in this splintered tree?
My bones sore, my eyes filled with blood tears
I’m overwhelmed with the world’s fears
The sin of every mortal is upon me
Weighing down on my shoulders
Crushing me all over..
But I die for my friends
Without doubt or hesitation
My death is imperative and inescapable
My demise is for love immeasurable
For your redemption I relinquish my life
For love I offer up My Sacrifice.
By JPS
