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Halfway Home

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The sacrifice

Of your shed blood

He said

On our behalf

In prayer

His words the surrogates

A shadow

Of the death itself

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Horribly

A bleeding body

Shed of its spirit

At the last

A life too pure

A sacrifice

For us

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Yet there it was

In expiation

Half redemption

For our sins

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The weight of everything

That hates

Crushing his body down

Pushing out his spirit

On to Hades

Or Valhalla

To Gehenna

Or to Sheol

As it’s understood

To name it

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Half the promise

The brutal

Ugly

Barbarous part

Complete

And it is over

He said it was finished

Maybe it is

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