Crown of Thorns

Unlike boxthorn it grows on a vine
growing on different angles
like wooden barbed wire
unmerciful to become entangled in
or to have made into a mock crown
only to be rammed into the skull
embedding itself deep into the cranium
tearing flesh and nerves sinew and muscle
causing copius amounts of blood letting
head throbbing, till paralysis numbs the face..

Imagine the agony of this just for a minute...

Then think about how a rod was used to
smack it further into the wearers skull
whose face had already been beaten
till it resmembled that of mangled lamb
urecognizable to anyone who knew not
the wearer of this heinous device
heartwrenching to those who did
such as his mother, and his followers
all those whom HE had healed
from their afflictions, sorrows and even death!

He did this, He allowed this, He suffered this and far more..

So next time we fall headlong into a boxthorn hedge, or a briar bush, or even take a splinter into our finger, or step on a barb, remember how it throbs, stings then magnify it 100%

Lest we forget!

                       Ch'erie de Perrott
                        Copyright 2006