Five Easter Poems 2017

Judas

nothing can undo

the time

this noose

my folly

my sin

no one could forgive

me ever

or pity

my horror

my pain

never again

his smile

his eyes

his holy bread

his  wine

no more love

or clan

no hope

just this body 

and this rope

Joseph

who heard my cry 

my son? my wife?

this broken jar?

my longing and despair

and I stood witness

to my son, my wife,

the soldiers, Cesar, God

and all my love

and all my hate

was there

Magdalen

no woman's land

no place for tears

this empty silence very loud

these holes, so black and deep

an awful wish

that he would not

have been "the one"

because he is

and all is love and all is gone

and all and all and all is one

and never will I find him

alive again for me 

Mary on the Sabbath

torn hollow heart

won't beat

my chest a cave of blood 

my son 

warm 

life and breath ?

with fear

I shape his name

Thomas

the wound

tasted of iron,

old blood,

pain;

but still.. 

the eyes 

so changed, 

keen, clear,

cold;

not him..

said "Thomas"

shook my shoulder,

smiled

again,

I knew him then.

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