At An Allegory---As If The Old Rugged Cross Spoke---Inspired By The Spurious Gospel Of Peter

I, and my species, made by His command,

provide the many trees throughout this land.

Yet, why oh why---why?---have I been selected

to lift His Body's weight, inflicting pain

upon His, and, at last, that ghastly death.

Why was I chosen to take His last breath

from Him, and bear His precious Blood's pure stain?

But let be as the Maker has directed.

For He has promised a great transformation:

 

no more to be a tool of death and shame;

 

brought by Him to spiritual exultation

that anyone believing can obtain

in the fellowship of the mysteryi,

and its cosmic spirituality.


Starward

Author's Notes/Comments: 

In the spurious Gospel Of Peter, the cross is said to have actually spoken.  The metaphor seems a bit extreme for a book that claimed to be a Gospel, but it seems acceptable for a poem.

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