Submissions by ManicallyPoetic

How does it happen
Not a word is spoken
Yet an online
Crucifixion
Happens

What’s the difference?
Between the mocking
Of the baying crowd
At Calvary
And the sniping
On social media?

The victim
The same
The pain
As real

Characters
Assassinated
By nameless voices

It’s all too easy
To mock
Behind words
Keyboards and mice
Modern nails

On crosses made
Online
Yet the agony
Is real

Tell me
Would the same
Have happened ...

Hello
God
Are you there?

I’m struggling here
And though I know
You’re with me
It’s hard to hear you

Sometimes
I echo him
That man

Crying out
To you
Eli eli sabacthani
Where are you?
Where have you gone
Am I truly alone
Have you forsaken me?

No, I am here
In your brokenness
Your woundedness
I call to you
Yet blinded by pain
You do not hear

Come away
To the desert
Where the lights of the city
Cannot glare
Blind you
Distract you...

Walk away from it all
I will catch you if you fall
Hanging on to fear
Holding it dear
Tires your soul

Come to me
I will give you rest
Put your weary head
On my chest

I will love you
Embrace you
Protect you
In a broken world

So turn your face away
From the endless pain
Injustice reigns
Yet all
Is in my care

When you can’t sleep
Fear runs deep
Lift your heart to me
I’m always there

In the depths of the night
The strength and might
Of my arm ...