ON WAY TO GOLGOTHA

If this life is a cross to bear

then allow us Golgotha now to reach,

for long have we carried the heavy wood

which our fate shall be

and rest - even if through final pain -

we yearn after all these steps

up life's steep hills.

Let our tired limbs

be pierced with the last pain they shall know,

let us rise against the fading sun

on this cross we ourselves shaped.

11.07.2019