The Raging: for the Love of Jesus

The Raging: for the Love of Jesus





Thunder clouds they swing above us

Old, cold hailstones chap my cheeks

No-one even, o none of us

Has even been this way in weeks



The blackened night whips up the wind

The lightning cracks the sky apart

He’s faced up some, but not this one

Can match the Raging in his heart



He said, I quote “I’ve found the source

Of all the beauty in the world!”

And should it come to pass, of course

He’ll make his way with flag unfurled



He told us, “Follow me in love;

and lead the people to the truth”

He’s strong, yet gentler than a dove

And wise beyond his years and youth



We love him; have no cause to doubt him.

We’ll follow him for all our days;

I’d like to know some more about him

As he calms me with his twinkling gaze



He says his name’s Yehoshua

Ben Joseph: from the Qumran caves

We tell him ”ay, of course you are!

and it’s love and only yours that saves!”



“Fine! “ He laughs. “You wish to mock me!

Lose me with your airs and arts!

But hear me now!. Ever lock me,

Safe and close inside your hearts!”



“Love “ he says, “ only love so great

Will wash away your ragged sin.

As I have found my true soul mate.

And her name is Mary Magdalene.”



So off they went, out of the garden

To Marseille and that zeitgeist;

And left my aching heart to harden

For loss of my Mary and her Jesus Christ.