the innocent and the good

"I crumbled under the weight of everyone's pain,

I fell flat and bloodied.

It didn't matter that I lay broken... their perspective on life was the crucial issue,

the life they lived... the life they believed was right... the life without alternatives.

It seemed fitting that I was battered, for they did not comprehend their actions... and so I had to reveal to them the horror of their pain.

They dragged me to the hill, nailed me to the cross, and hoisted me up for all to witness: the most ignominious of deaths.

I forgave them for their selfishness, their ignorance, their blindness! And as my final breath escaped me... they turned to another, for their suffering was quenched by the blood of the innocent and the good."