Good Friday

This is it.

He's gone.

My soul is pierced, 

sliced open, 

He said it.

that old man,

all those years ago, 

which seem like yesterday...

"A sword will wound your own soul too."

All the other wounds were nothing.

This is it. 

(Inspired by Luke 2:35, Luke 23:49 and Paula Gooder's book "The Women of Holy Week")