I am creating a series of art and poems based on the words Jesus spoke to women. This poem is based on the account of Jesus’ words spoken to the mourning women of Jerusalem as he walked to the crucifixion site after his trial found in Luke 23:26-31.
You can hear me read this poem here:
city on a hill
its killing field–
“the skull”
where flesh
reduced to bone–
hollowed humans
ancestor Adam’s
cursed bones
witnessing
the Teacher
now walking
its way of sorrows
we do all we know–
weep and wail,
bleeting, helpless
silent until now
he sees us
and stops
and the man,
swollen and gashed,
pities us:
“Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me,
but weep for yourselves and for your children.
For behold, the days are coming in which they will say,
‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore,
and the breasts that never nursed.’
Then they will begin to tell the mountains,
‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’
For if they do these things in the green tree,
what will be done in the dry?”
so we weep
for we we do not raise
sons and daughters for slaughter
we weep
because they do not recognize
the face of God
we weep
for precious are the skulls
of hallowed humans
we weep
for hope
of a turning
to a new
and truer
Adam
Related Scriptures:
“For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.” (1Corinthians 15:22 ESV)
“When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.” (Matthew 9:36 ESV)
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