For Christ's Sake


Back on the cross again.
          Here I am taking
                               your pain
                                       with me again,
            Here I am taking your sorrows.
               Here I am taking your sins.
                                          All of your sins.
But do understand me this time,
                                         won’t you?
    Do understand that it is not me
                                you should believe in.
       Do understand that it is in yourselves,
                                             in yourselves that you should believe.
For I am not your God,
                           but your conscience,
                                   and am willing
                                                  to be crucified again,
                                             to be buried again,
                                                         just so I can be nursed back
                                                                                              to life again
                                                                                     in your love-full bosoms.




Summer 1996