<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=554344" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Good Friday Meditation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Him are mirrored<br>All our failures<br>The pain of contrast<br>Leads to the final solution.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Injustice is man's weakness <br>Each new age invents new ways.<br>As God stood among them <br>His challenge, was too great.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So today beneath the stairs<br>Their game took new meaning<br>The King is crowned<br>By men outside 'Torah'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Darkness that leads to death <br>Overshadows the sun<br>The winding stair, <br>That leads to so much pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet the pain of betrayal<br>Is deeper than the wounds<br>That ooze and drip<br>Red puddle forming droplets.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The gate is open, the way is set<br>Pass the traders, <br>Who yesterday, <br>Sought your custom</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Around about the voices cry <br>The telling clink of money<br>The smell of fresh baked bread <br>Normality goes on without pausing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Somewhere on the fringe <br>The water seller waits<br>The thirsty crowd<br>Will make his day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The contrast of compassion <br>The soldiers cursed by the crowd <br>The victims cursed by the soldiers<br>All are cursed by the act.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here is the holocaust <br>The murderer, and rapist<br>The thief, the scum of humanity<br> Bound in this one act of shame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The darkness settles <br>The rain cannot wash this moment <br>From the pages of man's history <br>Cannot expunge our failure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That will only be explained<br>Lifted from the dirt<br>Dealt with in full<br>On Sunday.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Tipp">James Tipp</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=554344" data-title="Good Friday Meditation de James Tipp" data-description="In Him are mirrored All our failures The pain of contrast Leads to the final solution. Injustice is man's weakness Each new age invents new ways. As God stood among them His challenge, was too great. So today beneath the stairs Their game took..."></div> </div> </div>

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