04/02/2018
Happy Easter!
THE REBELLION
Barabbas!
Barabbas! Barabbas!!
Barabbas!
Barabbas! Barabbas!! Barabbas!!!
Barabbas!
Barabbas! Barabbas!!
The cross is empty
But the Cross is not.
The weak is strong;
He does no wrong
To the wicked coward,
Besides reaching out.
Like burdens, the Cross
Carries love, with tears, fears,
With a bruised big heart
in haggard steps, after
The order of Korah, Datan,
Abiram, I, and you.
Like nature’s funerals,
Everyone's come to watch
The crushing of a lifetime -
Nails, wounds, and chains,
Meet a crown of thorns of pains.
Everyone's throwing bants.
It is finished.
Tis finished, tis finished
Finished, finished,
Snitched, snitched, snitched
Barabbas!
Barabbas! Barabbas!!
Life! What about love?
The one thing that matters
Quietened by the Unity Party
Angered by stronghold on Barabbas.
Untie Barabbas, Pontius Pilate;
Let Barabbas on the loose!
Bring back the way of the prison!
The remnants of joy ephemeral!
Barabbas!
To our own freedom, we shall suck!
Barabbas!
Let the thief secrete our milk!
Barabbas! Barabbas!!
STOP.
Everyone's losing someone,
something, somewhere,
somehow. Everyone's losing
It, for the 'one', 'thing', and 'one thing'
That is, in the end, all.
Barabbas! Barabbas!! Barabbas!!!
STOP.
Come up the stairs of
Reflection, with humility.
Let reality stare at you, Fantasy.
Bring your materiality; evidences
and logics, to the reasoning
of the cross bathed in blood
The cross is empty,
But the Cross is not.
The cross is empty,
But the Cross is not.
The cross is empty,
But the Cross is not.
Humanity,
Let me re-fix your gaze.
Eternity is waiting,
Beyond your cross,
And the Cross.
Let go your reasons
For this rebellion story.
It is finished.
Barabbas!
Barabbas! Barabbas!!
Barabbas!
Barabbas! Barabbas!! Barabbas!!!
Barabbas!
Barabbas! Barabbas!!
The stone; stone stone stone
The blood; blood blood blood
Hmm-mm. Hmm-mm..Ah!
The wound; wound wound wound
Humanity; huu-hmm - ma- ni - ty
Rebels; rebels, rebel, rebels, rebel
The music fades
Barabbas in Acapella,
The sky closes its eyes.
What about the Christ?
The cross is empty
But the Cross is not.
© Tobi Akiode
19.17.31.03.18
(THE REBELLION)