Do Not Weep for Me

As they led Jesus away, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming from the country, and they laid the cross on him, and made him carry it behind Jesus. A great number of the people followed him, and among them were women who were beating their breasts and wailing for him. But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’ Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us’; and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” Luke 23:26-31

Do Not Weep for Me

Do not weep fpr me but for the mothers
separated form their dear little child
the fathers dying with his daughter
for the ones who want only a little.

The broken and selfish now lead us
spending dollars on fake displays
small towns and people overlooked
for a moment of sinister triumph.

Do not weep that love was crucified
rather weep over the love not shared
the abuse of helpless and needy
the taxing of the totally destitute.

Do not weep as I go to the cross
weep as the children are put in cages
scream outloud to the mountaintops 
about the injsutice we see every day.