The Easter Time Loop

 

(A lone voice whispers)

Will you still

Walk with me

The one I once named

Anointed and baptized within my mind

In my own ancient

Gardens of Gethsemane

Where together once again

I shall no longer stand alone

Will you pray wherever you are

To empower me

When the Darkness Temple Soldiers come

To encourage me

To help me to breach all the rugged mountains

I need to cross

To atone

But all I ask of you

Now 

At this moment

Is simply this

Upon my sanguine lonely cheek

Plant an incandescent soft spiritual kiss of belief 

And whisper 

Amen

To reignite my eternal soul

To help me clench tightly my hardworking hands

As we both

Into this new rebirth, wait for release again 

From this inexplicable deceptive life

We both now live

Within 

If you visit this

My time loop in words 

Surrounded by sin

Where I'm constantly reborn

To walk Via Dolorosa

Also known as the Sorrowful Way 

In the Old City of Jerusalem

So I ask

Will you light some frankincense and myrrh, incense candles 

Someday 

Soon

So the aroma

Can reach and carry the prayers of the faithful

And yours 

Even higher

From wherever they are

In whichever rooms

Urging those prayers to rise faster to Heaven 

So someone I know 

Can hear their call for help or guidance 

From spiritual depression 

To help them keep standing in the lines of those enjoying the power of faith

Through self-expression 

(C) Copyright John Duffy

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