By Chidi Anthony Opara
From the countryside
The Christ
Astride an ass
Rode to the city,
The crowd sang;
"Christ is coming this way".
They hollered;
'Hosanna in the highest!"
Their loincloths
They laid
As mats for the messiah,
Palm fronds peopled the roadsides.
When the holler halted,
The high priest hollered blasphemy,
The crowd cried;
"Crucify him!"
They threw missiles at the messiah.
On the cross
The messiah muttered;
"It is finished".
The multitude mellowed,
Musing
On the message of the messiah.
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