Category: Religion

Heirs to the Shroud

Along deltas undefined
Scarecrows like fireflies grow
Suffocating time
Strangling the future
Blitz against blitz
Ghost castles rise
In between meteors collide
Nightmares in our veins
Mind waves create field rage
Holocaust in our hearts
At the apex light and darkness merge

Rags for Heaven

It isn’t the exercise
Of power that one gains strength
But in its constant restraint;
The greatest being that ever lived
won eternity in his stillness.
It isn’t in the arrogant
Display of authority that one begets respect;
But how fairly …

Calvary of the Poor

Lent is a finishing act
When Jesus sheds of mortality
When Judas willfully obeys the scribe
… takes the loyalty test
And executes the plan
Jesus passion is a biblical tragedy
A mandate the lamb must obey
Caiaphas’ lust for power …

The Theology of the Stable

Baptize me into your emptiness
Infuse me with the fascination of sacrifice
That I may accept poverty as a voluntary
Ministry
Toward the abandonment of myself
Invite me into your private Calvary
Let me join in your mission
Of total surrender