Can You Tell Me?
How do hands construct a crown of thorns without
tearing their own flesh?
Would not gloves, so thick to resist cruel piercing,
make for clumsy work?
How does the mind devise such torment without
piercing its own soul?
Would not such thoughts induce imaginings
so dark as to haunt waking and sleeping?
Yet they were men like you and me,
pawns,
carrying out Satan’s plan. They did
not comprehend
their bit roles in the age-old drama
between
light and dark, good and evil,
nor did our adversary fathom
the twist in the
divine plot that would be
his undoing.
© Dorothy Johnson
Holy Week, April
16, 2014
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| photo courtesy of Don Blair |
