REDEMPTION
i) No redemption. Below in the Kingdom of Earth, her firstborn son is gone. her redemption is lost. Cain ? She cries out. ?nd where is Abel ? And the man I possessed ? In the night, Cain stumbles eastward toward Eden, Blood on his hands. A bolt of lightning splits open a tree nearby like a flaming sword, On the bloody ground. far behind, A body. It begins to rain. ---------------------- ii) The Night Watch in Bethlehem Far above, in the damp night sky Among the stars, the glory of angels, the Kingdom of God.... but distant thunder. Far below, a baby cries in a manger. Is this Eve's Savior, returned at last ? Surely not in this soiled straw. Everything is a puzzle. And where is Adam ? She is told that He will draw thousands, to whom, as to Moses' band of refugees, He will give a sermon. But not yet, as did Moses, that He will preach that this is not yet the promised kingdom, For there, instad of driving away the Romans, those that mourn will be blessed with the Kingdom of Heaven. Where First is Last. That they shall be blessed with persecution. More puzzling, that they should love their enemies. The crowd begins to thin. ------------------------------------------------ iii) The Journey They sleep as well as they can by the road from Nazareth, this scandalous couple-- betrothed, but the bride already pregnant, and not by the father. The world in darkness knows nothing of their journey. Nor is that journey itself of importance, the world would later discover. What will fill the world with hope and joy Is the journey from a far star, the unseen journey of God to earth. ------------------------------------------ iv) Adam's Ghost Adam's ghost is there, as is Eve's. As they raise the crosses holding three criminals and slam them into their holes. Limbs pierced with nails. Pain and blood. Horror and laughter. Entertainment and justice. Rightly so, for the man in the center had broken the covenants. So now we break his body, we drain his blood. Life finally leaves his body, and they lower it, this so-called King of the Jews. But the laughing stops when the sky darkens and the earth shakes They question each other as lighning shatters the darkened skies, and hold each other as the veil of the Temple is rent in two. The ghosts are gone from the shadows. - Roger Clough 2011. Dr. Roger Clough NIST (ret.) 6/15/2013 See my Leibniz site at http://team.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
