Daily Archives: June 17, 2020
The Vortex — Racist Bishops
Burial Oil
Make of me an anointing oil
To be pored into the wounds
That bore my name.
Who am I,
How do You count me
In Your universe?
I am nothing,
A wisp,
Mere smoke
Clouding Your heavens,
And yet,
You mount Your Cross
For me.
For me,
The nails pierce Holy Flesh,
For me, You are lifted,
And the Cross
Crashed with Your pain
Into the ground
Over the bones
Of my First Parents,
A skull, fittingly,
A remembrance of their fall,
And our perduring Fault.
My tears flow with Mary’s
My hair hides me
From hungry eyes,
That I might be for You,
Here in this place and time.
You thirst for me.
Now, may I satisfy You,
By willing our union,
And embracing
My death in yours.
Oil and comfort,
Comfort only
The dead can know,
To be shrouded away
Until the Day.
