You were one with the Father. <br />Then the Father turned his back on you. <br />You felt forsaken, <br />hanging there between heaven's thunder <br />and the dank spittle of earth. <br /> <br />For that moment you belonged nowhere. <br />You were love, cut off from love; <br />truth nailed down by lies. <br />You must have wanted to explode, to disintegrate, <br />to disappear into a void. <br />But that was forbidden. <br />And that was the test. <br /> <br />Your blood burst through your skin <br />and ran down like sweat. <br />Your sweat ran cold <br />and drained into your heart. <br />The universe caught hold of your pain. <br />The sun went blind with grief. <br />The earth shivered in shock. <br />History was torn in two. <br /> <br />I stood at a distance, <br />my collar turned up, <br />like a murderer witnessing <br />a wrongful arrest.<br /><br />Steve Turner<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-crucifixion/
