The nail: Wicked Embrace

O, Lord! Why did you create me?

How I penetrated your bones

Yet Lord, You hung on me

You endured my wickedness

Wickedness triumphed your innocence

My cruelty made you bleed to death

Every drop of blood flowed through me

Oh! How painful your suffering?

Yet, I ignored your silent suffering

Momentary triumph ended

You broke my wickedness

I couldn’t hold you no more

Now, I knew you’re the Savior

Ultimate victory over evil

Now, I stare and watch you Triumph

My hardness couldn’t defeat you

You’re humble yet powerful unlike me

Thank you, Lord, for the awareness

You’re strong and I am weak.

The Tree: Loving Embrace

A calm day in the woods

Chaos in Jerusalem plentiful

Jesus of Nazareth is sentenced

The tree stood tall over the woods

Misery struck the woods

Romans hunted for a tree

A tree, that can contain the Savior

The tall tree looks across amazed

Tree falls like creations bow before creator

Unwilling though to lay down its life

Brought forth to be a Wood of the Cross

Cross for the Savior to hang

Tree learns about the Savior

Great distress strikes the woods

Creature contains now the creator

Shadow of sadness covers the creation

Bleeding Savior walks to embrace the tree

Tree refused to contain the creator

Jesus looks with intense pain and distress

Utters in silence “You’re the wood upon I hang”

Union of creation and creator

Expressed beyond imagination

Savior embraces the tree

Whole weight of the tree upon Savior

Every fall creates wound on the creation

The creation is bleeding with pain

Every drop of blood flows through the tree

Suffering Savior embraces the tree with love

Now, one last intense embrace

Screams Savior “I commend my spirit”

Helpless tree watches and waits

The Glory of God in the gentle embrace of the tree.