Holy Week Poetry--- Tuesday

Haiku from the Cross

Father, forgive them

For they know not what they do

They don’t know……don’t know

Jesus said “I thirst”

They offered a sponge of wine

Instead of justice

The one Jesus loved

Lived with the one Jesus loved

So it was finished

My God, My God, why?

Why have you forsaken me?

Silence caressed him

Jesus, remember

The one who feared God as well

As the one who laughed

"My Spirit goes forth

As wine on a hyssop branch

To a thirsty church"