Creators' Cross

"Let us make humankind in our image" (Gen.1:26)

Whoever would come after me
Must take up hers and follow still
To a land that I will show you
Only after you set out, leave all
Not knowing much at all but trust
In One who has walked this way to
Death, descended into bondage
Three days, four hundred years--the same
As the man who walks to the sound of
His guard calling, "Dead man walking."
It is a way into darkness,
Foolishness to the enlightened,
Confusion often enough for those
Who have heard rumor of a dead man
Walking in His shroud, no longer
Bound by backward logic of a world
Turned upside down because despite
Common wisdom of low creatures,
One called Wisdom walking with the grain
Of this good world we created.

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove