The Hammer Drops

It will, and always does.

he labouriously lifts it up again -

Poised to strike;

Does he ever learn?

Toil, turmoil - suspended in time:

Fracturing the wood -

Driving the nail in deep through

HIS flesh - splitting bone -

Squelching through to the core.

Yet, there he is again -

Hammering in the sin of deception  and evil,

Steel shreds of our illgotten past.

Do we ever learn?

2000 years - he lifts the hammer,

Carves into the air a sharp blow,

As the figure of Christ arches up in LOVE -

The repulsive nail that humanity drives deep into

The sole of HIS feet -remains...

Splaying out the plattelets -

Thick, red, tender molecules of love.

Poured out for us.

he raises the hammer high behind his head -

Welding the sins of the world

On the abject hammerhead;

Matserfully crushing the pain- wraught

bridge of HIS feet.

Destroying sin; creating a new

Dialectic Scheme of Salvation.

A new glorious bridge between

GOD and man.

Deep within the thorned crowned head -

Rich life-giving eternal blood,

filled with grace and love

flows down and out, to a world fraught with sin.

It is finished,

It is done -

and always will be:

Sempiternal!