Enter Now the King, All but Insane

March 26, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The twin themes for this week are Passover and Easter, which this year are celebrated at the same time. The first night of Passover is the evening of Good Friday, March 30, and Easter Sunday is April 1.

Today’s poem is about the evolution of sacrifice through Greek myth, Passover, and Easter.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Enter now the king, all but insane,

Accompanied by his daughter, who would be

Sacrificed to calm a raging sea,

The start of much bad blood, revenge, and pain.

Enter now the ram, who would retain

Remnants of that ancient agony,

Put in place of the child the father would free,

As God would not require a child again.

So enter now the lamb, a sacrifice

Self-sought to still that ancient desperation,

One that would turn the lust for blood to love.

Vengeance and desire turn hearts to ice

Even as the soul looks for salvation,

Restored by rites that would a god's heart move.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/entern.html. For more Easter poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/easterpoems.html . For more Passover poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/passoverpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Easter and Passover

March 26: Enter Now the King, All but Insane