Memoirs of a Slave Girl

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---------------------/Memoirs of a Slave Girl; Thoughts of the Slave Girl of the High Priest Standing Before Peter

"The rumors are
you talk with the King of the Universe
somehow clothed in our flesh,
that the God who fashioned stars dines with fisherman-
dust molded into clay then clothed in rancid rags
reeking of musty docks-
fishing a meal for the One who gave all fish life.
(And you completely oblivious to the irony)
Crowds murmur, they attest you walked on water,
like Him,
the sea transmuted into dry ground,
and together multiplied a few pieces of bread for them
into thousands of loaves
like Elijah back from the dead
and Elisha carrying the back of his mantel to stop the fraying. 
Yet when I look into your eyes I see a soul quivering
-unlike Elisha- portending a holocaust of some sort,
the terror of uncertainty, fidgeting fingers
nerves so tense you spasm to the tune of cracking wood
face glistening in the bonfire, a hypocrite’s baptism,
pretending to warm your hands while everyone stares at you
in sheer amazement.
Your shadow cast by the fire belies your presence,
whilst you stand pat it seems to flee, receding more and more
with each of your denials.
 I have seen a thousand moons it seems, but never one so bright
or crying with foreboding;
when I look up into its reflection, the night’s
shimmering white lake of fantasy, as I suppose,
I am seeing a man’s heart lanced, the sky pouring down bloody rain.
Are you sure you don’t know this man called 'Jesus?'
it would seem 
He needs you now more than ever."


--------------Mark 14:62-68
And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses? Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death. And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest: And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, and said, And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth. But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.