Holy Week — Integrated Catholic Life™

This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Jenna Funkhouser.

Holy Week

I.

this is the night
we walk backwards
into blindness

into silence

this is the daybreak
we bear unrecognized
hosannas
on our burning tongues.

II.

it is walking
into a grave
within oneself

entering
this cavern within
the ribs

it is the shouting
of men gone mad
with the world

the tearing
of something
irrevocable.

III.

you must let yourself
be pierced
to be healed

you must accept
the lancing
of this…

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