The Redeemer
I was born in darkness
and silence.
Chains were held about
the
world like slaves
in captivity.
I was the Light
that you sought,
the music that filled.
It was up to you
to listen,
to hear.
I came as your King,
but you wanted mighty
and grand majesty,
not the lowly
that I was.
I was rejected
by my own,
then put to death.
Forgive them-
for in their blindness
have I saved the world
and shown it
my love
and redeemed it.
Look at these holes
in my hands
and this wound
in my side.
My agony
was your quickening.
Be rejoiced,
for the old things
are filled and
are made new.
Laws finished and
replaced by
Grace.
Believe,
for I have taken
away the keys
of Death and Hades
and made life
a possibility.