QUESTIONS TO OUR LADY OF SORROWS
Questions to Our Lady of Sorrows
While you stood there in the chaos,
Could you see past all the pain,
Past the sword that ripped your own soul
To your son’s triumphant reign?
Did the sands there of Golgotha
Scratch lines onto your face,
Mixing with the blood of Jesus,
Dearest lady full of grace?
While you stood beneath his shadow
As he hung there on the cross,
Could you feel your own wounds bleeding
When you stood upon the rocks?
As the turmoil clutched your sad soul,
Did your heart completely break?
Could you hear the soldier cursing
While his hammer hit the stake?
The “Prophecy of Simeon”,
Had it at last come true
Where the thoughts of oh so many
Would lay bare because of you?
Just when the earth was quaking
Did reality set in,
That Jesus died to save our souls
Because of all our sins?
As I ask you all these questions,
I am leading up to one,
Can you forgive me Blessed Mother
For the dying of your son?
Donna Sue Berry
August 9th, 2011
used with permission
Art: Detail from Crucifixion, Evgraf Semenovich Sorokin, 1873, PD-US copyright expired, Wikimedia Commons.
