A Saviour Between Two Thieves Poem by Achilles Mauko

The man in the middle, taught the kingdom with wisdom in riddle,
He was so simple, raised the dead healed the sick and even the cripple
But to the hypocrites who were idle, he was never to be an idol
Stood accused of deity swindle, by men who wanted him to play a second fiddle,
Therefore, they hung him between two thieves, barely naked, in a tree with no leaves,
Executed by horrible means, his whole body filled with a mass of wound leaks,
Speared and pierced in the ribs, but no blood or bone breaks only water drips,
Thorn above the head and bleeds, nothing to hold him just nails for grips,
With his fate decreed, face struck with reeds and bleeds no shoulder to lean just grieves,
They mocked him indeed, saying, it shall be only by miracle that he lives.
Feeling thirsty, he could whine, and in sheer mockery, they gave him wine,
Being righteous could not drink; he wanted to die with his conscious,
Humiliated and reduced to zero, soon he was forever to become a hero
For even in such excruciating pain, nothing to lose but everything to gain,
Because no man worthy of his kind, could have changed the face of humankind.

Left to die in the company of two thieves, they struck a conversation,
A symbol of perfect humility, even a midst series of frustration
However, between the two criminals, each had a mixed reaction,
Like a tale of two poets who couldn’t agree on a simple description,
To the man on his left, he was nothing but a symbol of inaction,
Nevertheless, to the man on his right, he was a saviour, messiah in action,
So the man in the middle by grace, to the latter, he promised redemption
What Einstein in his worldly wits, could have referred to as relativity,
Moreover, to the children of God this was by no way a show of simplicity
This was more than love, but an act of grace, not of mere reciprocity,
For He bore the sin of many. A fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy
Though numbered with transgressors, he became their intercessor.
So in between the two thieves, there was pardon and reconciliation,
To bring a revolution that will transform the fate of condemnation
And usher in a new creation, to end the rule by a constitution, but salvation,
Planted in people's heart, no longer by wit and sight, or by our physical might
But through Jesus Christ, to whom I am a witness and has brought me the light