Golgotha
By a bus stationin Jerusalem
there stands
a hill
whose stony face
uncannily
resembles
a skull.
Nearby
a garden
and a tomb.
Is this
Golgotha,
the place of the skull,
the place
where three
were crucified?
Two were dying
for human sins.
And in the centre
the one who died
for human sin -
the heaped-up sins
of all humanity.
All wore
the blazing sun,
the scornful
public eyes,
the pain,
the agony
of cruel death.
One cursed
and swore,
overwhelmed
by indignity
and pain.
Another
saw the sign,
"King of the Jews",
and gasped,
"Jesus,
remember me
when you come
in your kingdom!"
Remember you?
"Today
you will be with me
in Paradise!"
Golgotha,
grim,
foreboding -
place of life,
life given
for us
so we can live!
