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cristo re

his kingship is
foreign to us
for his kingdom
is not of this
world yet deeply
embedded within
its darkness and
suffering its
warmth and
joy and light
the throne is
place of eclipse
abandonment
and agony
the crown the
shame and
hurt as sharp
as nails but
thorns of
hurtful disdain
robed in the
lesions of the
scourge and
held by the
wrist split
nails this
power is lanced
laterally to
guarantee its
extinction
here love reigns
and reaches every
hope heart hurt
it never stops
till all time melts
into the glory first
lit by easter dawn

all life is blessed
and saved all
power is judged
and brought
to justice
the first is
last the last
is first the
inverse realm
of incandescent
divinity and
inebriate love
cristo regna

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