PUBLIC DISPLAY
So publicly You were displayed to die
before the stony eyes of finite men!
not on a private hill away from sight
but stripped and ripped before a raucous mob
taunted, mocked, bereft of modesty.
strident cries and jeers with laughter mixed
the passing rabble gazed indifferently
at the spectacle of gross debauchery
man perpetrating on his fellow man.
So publicly You were displayed to die
when dying should be private to a man!
Few saw beyond the sweat and stench of death
that it was God's own Son paraded there.
A common scene enough to daily view
along a busy, trafficked public road
a hundred malefactors hanging bare.
So publicly You were displayed to die
before uncaring eyes of mortal men!
No background music softly fading out
or cinema lights and make-up on that stage
only the curse of soldiers and the shout
of hirelings paid to false accuse and rail.
So publicly You were displayed to die
O Christ! Not for Yourself but for mankind
to generations stretching to my time.
God so loved the world and thus He gave
His Son to public disrespect and scorn.
For that the only Son of God was born!
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