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What It Means This Time

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Pilate asked

We may infer

He didn’t mean it

That the Romans

Took the truth

As they found it

As they made it

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The modern person

Secular

Asking on occasion

Not waiting for an answer

Except the answer

As we need it for

Moment by moment

Justification

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Then to wash our hands

As if

That made a difference

For the truth

As we need it now

And pushed into a new form

As we need it

Later

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Behold your person

Who is your monarch

I have tortured

Beyond the law

And now the law

Is done

With this one

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Say this is enough

I want other things

To do

And now you thread

Insinuations

Through the crowd

They murmur

And then roar out for Barabbas

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Do you even know

Who that is

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Well

I will release them

To you

Wash my hands again

Let go Barabbas

And then Christ

To indicate

Your will with them

One to roam

One to execute

With others for

Barbaric companionship

On crosses

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What is in it

Water

There is salt

For exorcism

My excuse

Or it might as well

Be tears

For bitter clarity

Of what is real power

When they have it

When you

Have it

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C L Couch

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John 19:5

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