Darkness…
Did Darkness
Take Jesus
From Garden to Prison
Betray Him and
Beat Him and
Hold Him restrained?
Was it Darkness
That crowned Him
With thorns
Deeply piercing and
Drove mighty nails
Through His hands and His feet
Was it Darkness
That held Him there
High on that wooden cross
Tortured for breath
Till He strangled
And died?
Was it Darkness
That spat upon
Tortured
Tormented
Ridiculed
Punished
That closed His Life down?
Twas darkness that followed
The close of His Life
Like the switch that dims lights
Or the breathe that snuffs flame
Twas Darkness that hid the land
Trembling and twisted
When dead rose from graves
The veil tore apart
But Darkness
Does Nothing
Is nothing
but
Lightless
Darkness
Hides not
Deeds of Woman
Nor Man
Our shame and
Our sorrows
Clearly
Displayed
Choices
Made
In Heaven’s full light
For Darkness hides nothing
No!
Twas not Darkness
Love then
Birth Pain
God chose
To endure
To bring back
His loved ones
To Life
He Holds it
Secure
For you
Out of a
Passion
He’s held for you
Always
Dearly
Costing
His All
Words and Pictures © Denise Stanford 2013
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Beautiful, Denise, our hearts response is joy, the joy of knowing the Father’s love.
Thank you.
It was Christ’s light that overcame our darkness, through the blood shed on the cross. There is life in blood.