Dying on the Wood

Gary Edward Geraci

Fallen: teaching telos; telos tells us

They’re made for swimming, spawning; swept salmon

Swim against currents, past predators, plus

Spend energy; death is all too common.

 

Piscivorous streams nourish feeding fry,

Decay bringing life; why one must first die

In the first place. Sacrificial. Now try

Our own species: to know and love our Why,

 

Who walked inclined during the heated passion,

And spent body and blood to forever feed

Us. God becoming grain and grape, station

To station, but first He would have to bleed,

 

Die, and rise so that the rest of us could

Live life everlasting, dying on the Wood.

 

Gary Edward Geraci

  • Author: Gary Edward Geraci (Offline Offline)
  • Published: September 4th, 2021 15:13
  • Comment from author about the poem: Dying to our selfish and self-interested ways we become more like Christ. Written in the Shakespearean sonnet tradition. “Piscivorous streams…” fish eating streams in that the decaying salmon ‘feed’ the water with nutrients that will one day feed the young salmon fry.
  • Category: Love
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