Christ is Risen!
Indeed He is Risen!
We couldn't share so many poems during the Fast and Great and Holy Week without sharing one for Pascha. Enjoy!
The Linen Cloth
April 13, 2020
Bright Monday
Clean linen cloth,
Joseph purchased you
to wrap this precious body.
You were the last one
to touch Him at the end.
You held Him close, or rather
He pressed into you
as He rested on the Sabbath.
Cold stone, cold body
and silence, darkness.
Linen shroud,
unlike the cloth of Lazarus,
no one needed to unwind you
from around His tender body.
He sprung from within you,
leaving you whole.
Now you are resting in the tomb,
imprinted with His image,
and when the disciples see you,
they will believe.
Why must I be humiliated
again every day?
He tells me that I am the linen cloth,
and I am to be a witness
to His Resurrection.
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