I Stand

I stand admiring rosy flesh

A deep red bloom that glows so fresh.

Silken skin blushing bright

Vulnerable velvet in my sight.

With purple hues and brush of blue

Saturate in sun and season’s dew.

Many are you amongst the one

chosen for new life to come.

Satiate this starve’d soul

and guzzle from your naked bowl.

One bite of flesh eyes open wide

as death screams out my endless lie.

I tore at you

and clawed you through

til gratified with gorge’d smile

I laughed a’loud and watched you die.

Now stand I smirking at cold flesh

a life laid down gives way to death.

Triumphant roar rips heaven wide

As Son of Man was crucified.

Finished now with all hope gone,

the King of kings, He rose again.

With radiant look ransomed all of life

as I screamed out to sacrifice.

He gazed at me and took my hand

Thrust fingers in his wounded side.

‘Feed on my flesh and drink my blood

new life in me will do you good.’

In shame I kneel at rosy flesh

As love from Him finds sweet caress.