<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366962" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Barabbas</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love it or hate it, that is my name.<br>I fought against the Romans and I lost.<br>They were ready to crucify me.<br>They were ready to end my life.<br>But my hatred lives forever.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love it or hate it, I live another day.<br>The Rabbi Jesus died in my place.<br>Another day and it would be different.<br>My war does not change in any way.<br>Not while Israel walks in chains...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love it or hate it, here I am before you.<br>Look at me with my blood still flowing...<br>Hear me as I speak to you, one to another.<br>See my hands moving freely here and there, <br>Yet nowhere near Calvary today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love it or hate it, Rome let me live.<br>Caesar plays his games with us all.<br>One false move now and I can still die.<br>But we all die, that is the lot of Man.<br>Jesus would have died sooner or later.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some say Jesus has risen from the tomb.<br>Would that I had been there to see it.<br>I could have thanked the man myself.<br>I could have asked for a miracle.<br>Take this heartache from me...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Forgive the Romans? Let them be? <br>Let them crush Israel underfoot? <br>Let God work out His purposes? <br>Forgive me, friend... I do not comprehend.<br>You may forgive the Romans, Jesus...<br>But love it or hate it, for good or ill...<br>I am still Barabbas...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, April 2011.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Based on the film Barabbas...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Denis+Martindale">Denis Martindale</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366962" data-title="Barabbas de Denis Martindale" data-description="Love it or hate it, that is my name. I fought against the Romans and I lost. They were ready to crucify me. They were ready to end my life. But my hatred lives forever. Love it or hate it, I live another day. The Rabbi Jesus died in my place. Ano..."></div> </div> </div>

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