Smite The Shepherd

The hands from Heaven’s throne were laid upon the scapegoat’s sacred head

Transferring the iniquities of His children unto His Beloved and

Only Begotten

Blessed altar and sacrifice

Prepared

One and the same

Intercession of our highest good

A destined divine emissary

Led out by His own hand into a desert of universal loneliness

Where the priest of all prayer became broken bread and spilled-out wine

Elements of innocence to breathe darkest secrets into ears of forgetfulness

A womb of pain to give birth to a cry;

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

The question given for us

To have and to hold

And the answer thereof to see

That the appointed Son of the Father’s love

Consumed the cup of righteous wrath

When He gave His sinless life

Upon the transgressor’s tree

Darren Campbell  

04/30/02

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