Red As Snow

take me home dear brother
a bleeding branch lodged in my ribs.
You come for me as always
as you must my Lord.
slain here in this snow I color it red.
A delightful song plays out its course about the sky
and earth to have my head.
I try to remove it but I cant
you know I cant and anger arises in my chest
for the thing caught. Break off the ends and stand
what a sorry sight am I.
Pushes me down I lie where I fell and stare into the whiteness
above me. Dear birds , they are the largest Ive ever seen.
I listen to them talk their little song along with the other
but all is put to shame , all is silent when footing takes hold
and I , I listen , Dear God , thank God I can hear !
the snow pressed to the ground
and the cold seeps into my bones.

~ from me now you will hear.....

My darling , she ran , she ran away and stopped up her ears.
She went from the hollow of my keeping , my protection.
There with I let her, but my pleading was present in a softness
she felt darker than the death of nights chill. But a voice called
quickly after and through the branches lo she went. These months
far less but breaking these bones has ensued. The other one I will deal
with and she will let me....
My tears on my face as I saw my darling here turning the cold dark red
and this branch wasnt meant for grafting in !
Torn and bent in her side ~

these steps came and barely could I see as I turned my head
He knelt next to me
His tears ran to the earth
come for me son of man
take this mortalness home and by it by death.
I felt the touch of His hand upon my wrist
pulling my arm.
but still I was feeling this thorn !
God ! How much more ?!

 ~I will lift you up.... what has happened my handmaiden, my vessel,
my pearl ~