Pierced
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- Written March 2012
To become overwhelming weapons of our destruction.
Lecherous lust finds a dagger on a London street;
Consuming jealousy bayonets another in the desert
Flaming anger explodes in an army of pikemen;
Growing greed confronts assegais in Zululand;
Boastful pride increases with a samurai sword;
Indifferent sloth bumps into an Australian boomerang;
Expanding gluttony meets the Bushman’s poison arrow.
Weapons and vice nail down the crucified Christ,
Crowned with thorns, and pierced by a spear,
Absorbing their venom to the point of death.
Yet laying them there in full surrender
Creates new life for us - and the world.
March 2012
They shall look on him whom they pierced John 19:37
Inspired by the dramatic scupture: Die Harder, by David Mach RA.
Click here to see a video of the sculpture being installed in Southwark Cathedral.
Image of Die Harder from:www.kateboardman.me.uk
