Death Undone (One Day)

His lips were a healing kiss of coagulated blood

Furthering the humility of his countenance;

A bruised and beaten focal form expressing

Eternal love

Salt-stung eyes swollen with the weight of sin

Looked out upon a sea of transgression

And rivers of faith, running with fear

While a circle of feminine passion glorified

His sacrifice through the providence of pain

Beneath the writing feet of God

Suspended between heaven and earth

Upon cursed crossbeams of judicial homicide

Bound by His children who knew Him not

For blind vulgarity had crowned the very head of majesty

With spit and thorns

And yet His last breath was spent

On spoken words of forgiveness

Before the Father

And fallen man;

Forsaken

that those who would follow

Would never be forgotten

Darren Campbell

03/22/02

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