Unable to remove the
stain. the long-held objection
trying to put it on
them as if he was an innocent
unable to stop the
tide while he held the power
this man of the
center, the face of power
wanting to wash his
hands to remove responsibility
the voice of Caesar,
the Roman Empire
in that holy,
troubled land, Israel, Canaan,
the city of David,
Jerusalem
Can you see him,
through history, a specter,
a soul yet wandering,
between heaven and hell
over and over he must
have washed his hands
trying to remove the
stain, the tattoo of innocent blood
blood he allowed to
be spilt, blood of a king
given for his people,
those who knew his name
whose oil was kept
full, who knew more than anything else
they needed his gift,
his boundless mercy, his ultimate sacrifice
His wife knew too,
something was wrong, something very wrong
to shed this pure,
clean blood, untainted by human sin
a human life lived
godly, that should have been proof enough
especially to those
vacillating, questioning twelve, disciples,
How could they go
through three years of teaching, of learning,
of watching him, his
actions, his compassion, his humanness,
his divinity, his
pure love, his sinlessness, and not knowing
He was God; how could
Pilate let the rabble dictate the death
of an innocent life,
a man that did not threaten Rome
to sacrifice, to hang
on the cross, instead of Barrabas
Washing his hands, no
that didn’t truly clear his stain
that he must have carried,
he must carry still, yet, unfinished
a soul yet wandering,
between heaven and hell
like the Master knew,
and wrote so well
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Edited December 11, 2013
“Washing His Hands – v3”
Edited March 26, 2013
“Washing His Hands – v2”
March 26, 2013
Washing His Hands”
Matthew 27:17b
Matthew 27:15-26
Sanctuary for Lent for
2013
by Robert V. Dodd
scripture and meditation
for March 26, 2013
read March 26, 2013
&
earlier poem
December 2, 2006 20:02
“Washing His Hands
Matt 27:1-26; Luke 23:1-25
and The Master and
Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
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