i've never succeeded
at giving blood
even on behalf
of dying friends
because every time
i've opened a
vein it always
ends the same
with my head
growing ever lighter
and my consciousness
slowing ever slighter
and my dizziness
falling into fainting
which disqualifies me
from giving Love
in this way
leaving the painting
of my heartfelt
and heartsore offering
incomplete and unfinished
and my woozy
psyche feeling like
an abject failure
needing to surrender...
until i remember
One who entered
into a world
ruled by fear
of unconditional Love
that never ends
where the rivers
of blood shed
in violent opposition
to this Love
continue to flow
from wounds that
seemingly never mend
One who sees
all the ways
we project this
fear onto others
and our Selves
through endless destruction
and mindless insurrection
One who knows
that beneath all
of our brokenness
and sordidness and
madness and sadness
there is Unshakable
Blessedness and Sacredness
Goodness and Gladness
One who shows
us the Way
of Revolutionary Love
holding nothing back
giving everything up
facing every fear
that blinds us
naming every shame
that binds us
shedding every tear
that reminds us
of Who and
Whose we are
enduring grotesque humiliation
undergoing unjust execution
from the corrupted
powers that be
not under compulsion
as Divine victim
or by necessity
as Sacred scapegoat
but from Compassion
and in Solidarity
with Divine Humanity
and giving blood
for dying Friends
as a sign
of everliving Love
in a Flow
that never ends
a perpetual Resurrection
infusing the flood
of confusing blows
and pathetic overthrows
and polarizing passion
with an overflow
of Liberating Vitality
to prophetically proclaim
a new Reality
in the Power
that always Is
and always Was
and always will
Be the Power
that sets Us
Free the Power
that already has
found us and
always finds us...
'It IS Finished.'
So to All
of Us sordid
and Sacred Souls
woozy with worry
dizzy with despair
squeamish with strife
screamish with Life
which seems to
be intricately tailored
to fit us
to an 'F'
and brands us
as 'infinitely failured'
and incorrigibly fluffed
in the Light
of this Love
shining Here Below
as from Above...
We are seen.
We are known.
We are Loved.
We are Enough.
and where other
showers of powers
may claim that
We are defeated
in the Flow
and the Glow
of this Love...
We have succeeded.
Thanks.
#400wordprayers #GoodFriday2024 #HolyWeek2024 #GiveLoveAndKeepBloodBetweenBrothersAndSistersAndOthers
'Good Friday Flow' © John Malone)
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