regnum
Harvey S. Mozolak

when we came to the place
called “dead-head”
we hung “Yahweh-saves”
among the lost who had stolen
his crime forgiveness and restoration
“king of the captured”
shouted the soldiers in mockery
his head thorn-studded in cruel crown
full of remembering
those who deserve only his rule
mercy’s sentence
"you will be with me"
among the living
growing and flowering forever

Christ the King
Luke 23:33–43