The Injuring Of Your Character Is Now Forthright Poem by Gert Strydom

(after Lina Spies)
I

People that had to lead from the front do lead others down the abyss,
say that You had an illegitimate child with Mary Magdalene,
that You did disappear with her into the bushes,
that You looked at her as the whore that she really was
and do forget that at the grave where she was crying
You did tell her not to touch you
and Your love is for sinners and Godly for anyone
that does make You the master of their hearts
where Mary Magdalene did truly come to a conversion,
did break her most valuable salve over your feet
and do have people up to now still speechless
but was only asking forgiveness
as she wanted to follow and serve you with gladness:
as a human see You as the light and the living God.

II

If a human do see You as the light and the living God
there comes peace with Your love into the heart
and then a person wants to abandon all sin and unrighteousness,
even if it's a road of pain and anguish

but now homosexuals do make You one of them
say that You did love Peter and John in a twisted way
where at a time You did reprimand
Peter for being Satan

and John was like Your brother
where at the crucifixion Peter did You deny,
did later cry about this in his distress
and You do know the hearts of all humans fully,

did pour out Your love for humanity in Your death
as the stainless Lamb of God was slaughtered

III

Where the stainless Lamb of God was slaughtered,
was hanged as a curse for humanity,
He is now curtailed to being a mere human
as if His sacrifice is suddenly replaced,

where people do say that He did not rise after the crucifixion
but was only a mere pathetic human being,
that the dogs did eat Him and carried pieces of Him away
and like Pilate do wash His Godliness off their hands,

do forget to have a relationship with Him,
do agnostically demolish him as being not important,
say that He was the child of a Roman soldier and a whore,
that He is a myth is reasoned out from logic and an affected mind

and some do run in advance as professors and pastors with this nonsense
and people that had to lead from the front do lead others down the abyss.


[Reference: "Onverklaarbare" (Inexplicable)by Lina Spies.]

© Gert Strydom