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Rated: E · Book · Personal · #2172808

We live much of life amid unique choices. Joy is anchored in The One beyond our life.

#1087573 added April 19, 2025 at 6:31pm
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Sabbath in the Grave
Events so awful are now done.
The passions of the crowd, released.
The death-shroud blankets o'er The Son.
All "Crucify Him!" screams are ceased.

All evil beasts exult, "We've won!"
Believers tremble in a hold.
The hope of all that's good is gone.
The world has darkened, demons bold.

The silence of the chirping din
could mark that even insects knew
The Lord of all creation's been
reduced in death as one who's through.

A skullish mount in stillness lies.
A boulder seals the cave's grave door.
One wonders if the sky now cries
at He, Whose strength was known before.

So, one more rabble-rousing voice
has been dispatched to silent be.
He could have lived, if by His choice
He had bowed to those who ruled o'er He.

But which of these had known His Heart.
He came not to be pleasant, fair,
but to give lost ones a new start.
He bore our shame and lasting care.

The night agreed with Man's verdict.
So, holding fast the bier ensconced.
The new day would awake, untricked,
unknowing, that now Time lay minced.

What grave could hold auspicious Dead?
What fiend could seal His lasting fate?
What damned could know defeat had bred
this Victory forever Great?


by Jay O’Toole
on April 19th, 2025


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