Mocked

And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion. And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him. And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. Mark 15:16-21

Mocked

They mocked even the divine
with spit and words and violence
they tortured the beloved
led the child of God out
to be crucified.

We take love in our midst
we cannot control so we destroy
we cannot silence so we tease
we cannot win so we kill.

A well known Simon walking by
was forced to shoulder the cross
compelled to carry the destruction implement
bearing the shame for ever more.


We take love in our midst
we cannot control so we destroy
we cannot silence so we tease
we cannot win so we kill.

God's love surrounding us
makes us uncomfortable and ashamed
we cannot hide from the truth revealed
we reject the one that comes to save us.


We take love in our midst
we cannot control so we destroy
we cannot silence so we tease
we cannot win so we kill.

God calls us to new honesty
to drop the weapons of denial and defense
to let love in to change us
and make us whole again.