Tuesday, April 1, 2008

"CALVARY"

By Andrew Clarke.

A dialogue between God the Father and God the Son.

"Where are you going to, Beloved Son,
With your heart harshly troubled, my noble young one?"
"I must go to the world to bequeath hope and warning,
To tell fractured hearts a new era is dawning,
There's hope, healing and fire, vile sin and great ire,
And a fearful judgement to come!"

"I see you so lowly, Beloved Son,
That place your were born is a cow-shed, Pure One,
"I'll be no haughty prince in a palatial hall!
I'll be master by being the servant of all,
For the world's petty kings greatly prize earthly things.
But for them there's a sentence to come!"

"Now you hunger and thirst in the desert, My Son,
And the evil one brandished his riches, True One."
"He offered the things of the world, Holy Sire,
Such pelf as will pass and be flakes in the fire!
But the truth should turn all to treasures eternal,
And away from the judgement to come."

"You have told people truths that amazed them, My Son,
And been balm to the crying and hurting, True One!"
"I have healed the blind and twisted and lame;
But their masters on Earth have reviled My Name!
Those that seek to be lords are as brazen as bawds,
And for them retribution will come!'

"You stagger,in pain, You are bleeding, My Son!
Your back scourged, you head torn, your face battered, True One!"
Each limb is impaled on a bleak iron spike!
Your side cruelly gored by the point of a pike!
And "Forive them!" you cried, as You hung there and died!
You would spare them the fury to come!"

The sky has grown dark as a Heavenly Sign;
The body is broken, the Bread and the Wine.
By this mission of mine death itself is thrown down.
The blessed shall rise from the dust and the brine,
They shall rise from their graves, My blood sacrifice saves,
Caught up from the anguish to come.

"Where is that foul place You've descended, My Son?
full of fury and shrieking and hating, True One?"
"I've descended to Hell, to the grim Lake of Fire,
To the cavern of anguish and terrible ire,
It's deep and its dark, there's putrescence and death,
But I've beaten the judgement to come!"

"You pry open Death's talons, Immortalized Son,
And your tomb now lies open, My Chosen True One!"
"Since Hell could not hold me I fly to my throne,
To that realm of rejoicing I'll carry My own,
From all times, young and old, I shall bring them, My gold,
Through the awesome vengeance to come."

By Andrew Clarke. 1985.

8 comments:

M said...

Thank you so much for the declaration of who our Lord is.

It has truly blessed me.

Jenny B. said...

beautiful poetry. the language reminds me of medieval/Shakespearean literature.

Shelby Marie said...

That was really, really good! Thank you for coming by my blog and observing my poetry...yours has greatly blessed me.

Write On!!!
Shelby Marie

jessica ann-lynn. said...

absolutely beautiful. i really liked it - the imagery was so accurate. i'm really glad you stumbled upon my blog too - i'm always welcome to constructive criticism.

Shan said...

That was GREAT. I love the dialogue approach......seriously, amazing job.

Thanks for the link, BTW. It was good to see a new name in the comments!

His_Instrument said...

Thankyou for leaving your comment on my blog .....

It is absolutely wonderful to see that I am not alone in this world and that there are people who love our Lord just as much as I do...

God Bless ....

Josette

§truth{in}lies§ said...

I read the comment of my friends blog abou this poem and you told him to read your poem, so i did. It was pretty sweet...

Anika said...

i like your poem. i have tried to get past the rythmic constraint, if you will, and just lay out my thoughts.
thank you for your comments.
i always welcome constructive criticism.
i am still in high school and so that essay was corrected by my writing tutor a time or two! but i am homeschooled so the tutor is my teacher.