Judas
Vassar Miller
Always I lay upon the brink of love,
Impotent, waiting till the waters stirred,
And no on healed my weakness with a word;
For no one healed me who lacked words to prove
My heart, which, when the kiss of Mary wove
His shroud, my tongueless anguish spurred
To cool dissent, and which, each time I heard
John whisper to Him, moaned, but could not move.
While Peter deeply drowsed within love’s deep
I cramped upon its margin, glad to share
The sop Christ gave me, yet its bitter bite
Dried up my ducts. Praise Peter, who could weep
His sin away, but never see me where
I hang, huge teardrop on the cheek of night.
Pray: Nearer My God to Thee
Sarah F. Adams 1805-1848
Nearer
my God
to Thee.
Nearer
my God.
to Thee.
Even though
it be a cross
that raiseth me,
Nearer
my God
to Thee.
