Crucifix
No Jesus on it,
just a plain old cross with no moss, and no flaws:
beautiful dark wooden cross
with a crown of thorns in the middle.
How Jesus died, a curled, a ruled, a fixed death,
mocked, whipped, stoned,
carrying his cross to the hill
where he was nailed and left to die.
The holy spirit says,
Jesus didn’t just die,
his spirit rose from the dead
to make all the sinners flawless
who come to him and believe.