You hang in Dublin town all this while
A buried treasure
Hiding in plain sight
Six figures in the dark
Gethsemane
Ill met by moonlight
Meagre lantern light
Judas’ earnest kiss
As he betrays
Guards rush on
John steals away
The lantern bearer
Painter all in one
Looks on in sorrow
Sad at this affray
All the while
The still and silent Lord
Closes his eyes against
This evil world
Deceit displayed
And violent rush of arms
Against a man
The subject of the palms
Duplicity and violence
Rule this world
And Christ came here
When Ireland was aflame
Whom do you seek?
The Lord forever asks
The Nazarene we say
Then here I am
Brian Fahy
3 May 2021
The Taking of Christ by Caravaggio (1571-1610) hangs in Dublin where it arrived in the early 1920s. The Taking of Christ (For Pauline)
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