RETURN FROM CALVARY

RETURN FROM CALVARY

Your steps were slow and you leaned heavily

on John and Magdalene. The knife plunged deep

into your heart denied you tears to weep,

nor could you realise that Calvary

with all its pain was awful certainty

and not a dream. Had He not lain asleep

within your arms; was He not ours to keep

for time and all God's long eternity?

You could not think of Him as being dead,

the fires of His life so quickly burned

to ash and vision fled from out His eyes,

but suddenly you saw His blood still red

upon the road and looking back discerned

three crosses black against the sombre skies.

Sister M Gustave OP. Sign. May 1936