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"Apocalypse of Judas---what he saw"

in those dark hours before he hung himself;

before his body took its headlong fall

into Aceldama, and all his bowels

gushed out; but left behind, that ghastly scroll

tells of the visions vouchsafed to his soul,

the sighs and sounds that horribly befell

him just before the gaping mouth of Hell

received him.  All its consonants and vowels

seem haunted in a form of frenzied Greek

that none not damned would wish to write or speak.

No faithless can endure it long, and must

not take it from his shadows on the shelf;

nor, there, even disturb the layered dust.

To read it without faith exacts a toll

too grim, too frightening, too terrible

for any words (present or past) to tell.

Starward

[jlc]