Good Friday

by Noble K. Thomas (April 10, 2009)

Have you ever worn
A crown of thorns?

It’s not so good to be king
When they fit you with a neck ring

And hang you from the cross.

Jesus, you didn’t have to die for me
In order to set my soul free.

When I look at your Father’s creation
I get that very same sensation.

The holy things in life have always been free
And they alway will be.

Still everybody wants to be king
But the silk rope of the noose
Still stings
As the body swings

Over the shadowed soil of their wasted dominion.