as Golgotha at home

vicarious
surrogate
the pain of God
on
Calvary
and so take on the unsaving burdens
of the world
without
perhaps the world asking
in fact
the world go so far as to realize the killing

whose pain to
bear
and should I ask to move away
the suffering
like the onerous
stone
each day

and should I ask hers even more
to go
though it’s false-brave of me to say

and yet
the sacrifice was there
and
does it mean
refer to and change
both kinds of pain
the body’s
and the spirit’s

and
I don’t know
but heal her
please
and then may I ask
heal me

c l couch


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