“….she licensed every form of lust with laws to cleanse the stain of scandal she has spread;”—Dante, The Inferno, canto V, 57

The Nazarene Shepherd.

The Nazarene Shepherd
Who on  Mount of Skulls died
mysteriously possessed what others vied

Of power and might
the mighty ones boast
Of armies and battles
invincible hosts

The power to conquer, to strangle, and reign
in contrast the Nazarene is
Judged insane

And Peter’s protest is understood
When girded with towel
His Master would
declare that mere Power amounts to defeat
and with Authority wash His feet

Pontius Pilate then washed
his hands calling for nails and
a death tree

Then exacting hard power through royal decree surrendered forever

Authority

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