Brier: Good Friday Poem by Emily Pauline Johnson

Brier: Good Friday

Rating: 2.7


Because, dear Christ, your tender, wounded arm
Bends back the brier that edges life's long way,
That no hurt comes to heart, to soul no harm,
I do not feel the thorns so much to-day.
Because I never knew your care to tire,
Your hand to weary guiding me aright,
Because you walk before and crush the brier,
It does not pierce my feet so much to-night.
Because so often you have hearkened to
My selfish prayers, I ask but one thing now,
That these harsh hands of mine add not unto
The crown of thorns upon your bleeding brow.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Susan Williams 28 January 2016

I like her message- that we must not add to the thorns on the crown He wore on the cross.

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