A Good Friday poem by Ellie Stock: "Relentless is Creation's Via Dolorosa"

RELENTLESS IS CREATION’S VIA DOLOROSA

 

Relentless is Creation’s Via Dolorosa—

choosing each millisecond

along its ever expanding Tree-of-Life journey—

emerging, purging, resurging,

fragile resilience ever setting Being’s face

toward new Jerusalems:

galaxies swirling, atoms whirling, comets hurling,

creatures toiling, humans turmoiling and gargoyling.

 

Relentless is Creation’s Via Dolorosa

to temples of grandeur,

upsetting tables of the greedy,

setting up banquets with the needy,

mocked, bound, beaten, crowned with corporate logos

by those who wash their hands politely, litigiously

while

Pachamama’s precious vitality—

sapped, tapped, stretched, plundered—

pours black blood and fool’s gold,

its seamless garment stripped, folded, and gambled for spoils,

its parched sighs ignored

while

skies blacken, mountains shake, winds choke,

seas roar, and fires scorch.

 

Relentless is the Cry of Creation’s Via Dolorosa—

reverberating, renting asunder the veil of false gods,

comforting Earth’s beloved with a nod,

then falling still and silent.

“Entomb it, conquer it, control it, contain it, brand it, market it, use it,”

            thus spaketh self-anointed soothsayers.

 

But,

Creation is still working its purpose out:

cruciformed, transformed, reborn, unbound—

Pachamama resurrected, stigmata in beckoning hands,

still breaking bread with souls whose eyes are now opened

along Creation’s relentless Via Dolorosa.

 

                                                                        - ejhs

                                                                        Good Friday