Colossal Miscarriage Of Justice

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Tuesday 24 June 2025

Colossal Miscarriage Of Justice

Kind face contorted by torture of severe whipping;

His body a mass of torn bleeding tissue.

Cruelty stretched beyond limits of endurance;

scourging was halted on the brink of death.

Numbed-hands unshackled from pillar,

He collapsed on a stone pavement.

'Crucify Him! Crucify Him!' Jarred the frenzied pack.

Paroxysms of rage that would pull down the fortress

of justice. Roughly, He's brought back to consciousness.

Wrenching pain sent features convulsing in humiliation

as the smitten Crown Of Thorns pierced His scalp.

The mocking crowd ridiculed: 'Hail, king of the Jews!'

Surfeited with demeaning mimicry in midday heat,

the Cross of Shame they hoisted on sagged shoulders.

In loneliness of anguish, His staggering courage

acquiesced to the summon by the looming fate.

In the mob's rain of spit and spittle, He tottered away.

A trail of His blood traced the route to Golgotha.

Nailed to the cross on Mount Calvary, loin cloth

He wore flanked by a duo on death row.

Parched with thirst, a sour blend was offered.

Looking down at by then jubilant crowd, He prayed:

'Father, forgive them they don't know what they're doing.'

'He is calling for Elijah,' they joked, wickedly amused.

Human barbarity too much to bear, with last gasp

of breath, He wailed: 'Eloi! Eloi! Leman Sabachthan?'

A shriek of the doomed that rent the skies.

'It is finished!' Then gently came the words:

'Father, into Thy hands I place my spirit.'

Head bowed, in utter agony He succumbed to injuries.

His prosecution: a blatant perversion of legal rules,

in a hasty nocturnal trials that snubbed burden-of-proof;

which had no room for witnesses for the accused.

A criminal action preceded by the unlawful arrest

He endured with manhandling and savage beating,

even though no resistance was offered nor expected.

Unfairly found guilty of His assertion of the messiahship

under the Mosaic Law; thereafter, He's arraigned before

a Roman blood-court on a claim to kingship of the Jews.

Hellbent on having Him put to death, the initial charge

of blasphemy was amended to sedition against Rome,

thus the religious was translated into a political charge.

Declared righteous by the one that betrayed Him;

what's more, He's adjudged innocent by the prefect —

a vacillating judge unruly eclipsed by the incited mob,

at whose behest capital punishment was handed down.

A travesty that shifted a villain's infamy to the Nazarene,

while freedom of the damned became lot of the freed.

On no occasion had he robbed nor cheated any one.

An upright gent he was with a lifetime of clean record,

who became target for lynching — in a sinister plot

hatched by Jewish leaders perturbed about His gospel

and rising popularity through mesmerizing miracles.

His Brutal Execution: A Colossal Miscarriage Of Justice.

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