Sacrifice

A Spoken Word I wrote to recite at church for Good Friday.

Long before

There was you and I or us and them

There was "him"-

A man that also wasn't a man

A perfect Sinless God-With-us man

Who they called Emmanuel,

Jahova, Jesus Christ

Who came down and died to a pay a

 price He did not owe.

He came to the garden and fell

Face first to the dirt

Knowing what had to be 

But did it have to be

Him who died for so many sins

He who did not sin

He who never did

Anything deserving of hell

But was destined for

Chosen for

Made for

Death by the weight of countless

Tainted deeds

So he got down on his face

Praying, begging for the grace 

Of Abba, Father, the one true God

If there was any other way,

A way other than thorns in his skull

A spear to the side

A thousand lashes 

to the spine

if there was any way else

That he could not have to die

But he was perfect.

So it had to be done.

He wiped the dirt from his face

Told Satan

Stay away from them

The children I love,

Then suffered the Cross and 

screamed at the top of his lungs

Father forgive them for

They know not what they have done

And the world grew dark and quiet and still.

Plunged into chaos,

It yearned for the savior it had killed

But when they saw him again

they still did not believe

Seeing the scars on his skin

The marks of the nails

That burdened his wrists

Finally felt the pain

Of what they had done to him

He Shouted

"If you want something to believe in,

 Believe in me! Because I shed the blood 

you were supposed to bleed

If you want something to believe in

Believe in me because I died

So you could breathe in every breath that you breathe and think

I am forgiven

Do not turn to things of this world

because those things you turn to 

will leave you empty 

broken breaking shells bleeding

endlessly.

If you want something to believe in,

believe in me.

For my sacrifice is what made you free.

Reviews

[Vanessa van Gersie]

This poem is something else it stirs up a lot of emotion...almost made me cry.great write and nice theme.