poems of grace - Once Upon A Cross

I'm a thief and a murderer
Walking up this hill
Looked around, heard the crowd
Filled with laughter still
This life of homeless wandering
Outcast in sorrow's way
At last the time has come to die
This dark appointed day
They nailed me to a shameful tree
A place of grief and loss
This child of sin and misery
To die upon a cross
To die upon a cross
Other men hanging also
On this dying day
One of them, a thief by trade
Mocked the Other's claim
He laughed and said, 'If you're the Christ
Then save yourself and us
Prove to me You're not a fraud
Come off that rugged cross!'
I screamed, 'You fool!
We rightly die, yet He has done no sin'
Then I exclaimed, 'remember me
And cleanse me from within'
He then replied, 'My little child
I came to pay your price
Today, My son, you will be
With Me in Paradise'
They nailed Him to a shameful tree
A place of grief and loss
But the Son of God on Calvary
Gives life upon a cross
Gives life upon a cross

Written by:
Grace Assad, Peter Assad

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