XXV
KNEES

Your knees are not bowed, but upright
like one who is walking, because your death
is a journey, not a repose. And with the nails           Ezekiel 2:1.
You spurred the cross, your battle charger,
goading it onward in your flight,
not directed by it for, like a good artisan,
you know how to control your tools,
and using it you draw all of us along.           John 12:32.
And with your legs nailed to the cross,
You became a stumbling block for the Devil
making him bite the bloody dust,
and You carefully left our trespasses
to the annoyance of your angry Father!