His Body Breaks
Poem
This poem won honorable mention in the 2020 Clinton F. Larson Poetry Contest, sponsored by BYU Studies.
His body breaks long before he hangs on the cross. He feels it in the slow drag of sickness picked up from crowds, in the joints worn thin from long walks, the strain of forty-day fasts.
He is held together with God and glue by Golgotha.
Eloi eloi, he allows himself at last, lama sabachthani?
This poem won honorable mention in the 2020 Clinton F. Larson Poetry Contest, sponsored by BYU Studies.