BLEEDING FOR CHRIST

BLEEDING FOR CHRIST

Ricardo Antonio Garcia

Aye- white eyes amidst the glow

the resurrection delivered us the continuum

of the Holy cloth, stamping the Trinity

by the Catholic eye of the Pope.

Atheists claim that it is in His delirium

paying homage to a non existent replication

mired by the pity of those

who determine Faith is based on Hope.

What has humanity given to show

beyond its inhumanities and severe complications

that people of Faith cannot cope.

Aye- white eyes amidst the glow

indeed the risen King has come alive again

staring into the holes in His hands

the gentiles carried on the legacy to know

that His permanence would be always reassured

without another contrived investigation

spearheaded by anti-religious charity

saying take Christ down.

Bury the bones and let Him be forever dead

a coming World of the faithless say, but

I will lean into the ground and pray.

Aye- white eyes amidst the glow

trail cloudless skies against the ravishes of pain

feeling the fragility of being human.

Aye- white eyes against the flagellation

the torments of our humanity persists to bleed.

Bleeding for Christ, we shall …