Ang Pagsasalaysay sa mga Bulag ng Pagkapako ni Hesu Kristo sa Kalbaryo
oil on wood
6 x 4"
Marius Black
2005
Put on someone's shoes for a minute, imagine you lived when
Jesus was being crucified, and yeah, it's your past life so you really didn't
came from the future. Let's make things worse, back then there are many people
who were poor, very poor. That’s you; what's more, you're friggin’ blind. And
you don't really know who this Messiah they are talking about, probably you've
heard of him before, rumors or gossips but you don't really believe he is the
son of God because you're still blind.
On this rare occasion, you heard the news that this man you
always hear of as a savior is being punished, so you get confused. Because why
would they crucify a man of peace as you heard of. You are curious and you come
to the place where they all die, at Golgotha, the Skull Mountain. Upon getting
there, you can hear these people fussing, crying and cursing. You can hear the
crying and the suffering, and all the heat is making the gloomy feel of the
crucifixion even more real to you.
Then finally you have the chance and you ask someone,
perhaps one of the few
believers of Jesus Christ for he tells you a very good
description of what was
happening to him, a description you'll remember for the rest
of your life.
You ask:
"Can you describe what is happening at the Skull
Mountain, young man?"
This description was given to you;
"At the Skull mountain, where they persecute and punish
all men who gets sentenced by the law, there are many skulls, they call it that
so men would remember that there have been many deaths there, that it is a
place where the people forget who has died there for there are so many...
In the mountain now, there is a man they call the messiah,
he is being punished by a crime he is totally innocent of. The punishment is
crucifixion. He is now crucified at a seemingly ivory like cross, ivory like
for it seem so hard and strong and heavy that whatever he does, he is unable to
escape the nails he’s buried in.
Like other crucifixions, he is nailed down with 3 nails,
they are huge and colored black, they are thin but long and strong. Blood
spewed out as they nail him in, heavy pounds, as the blood running was of a
melting red candle. Red as of the
raspberry wine. He bled more that anyone else.
He is being persecuted by the Roman guards; they taunt him
and make fun of him as they are mounted at their horses. If you can see them,
you think you are being fooled by your eyes, because it seems that you can see
through their souls, that they are no longer in human form. It gives you a
feeling that they will, for certain, suffer the fires of hell.
That it is being showed now because they are seen like
skeletons, like they are being burned now for what they are doing. Their eyes
are gone, what’s left is a red glow of evil, even their horses are already soulless,
they are already dead. Even with armor of metal and steel. No one could protect
them from the hellfire that is going to eat their flesh, their soul. They are
already dead.
From a far, two men are also being crucified, one is of no
regret, he is a thief, and his soul, is already gone, a victim of the fire as
well. But the other one, the other one has repented from sin, he spoke to the
messiah before his death, and asked for forgiveness, his soul only shows of pain,
of enormous pain, of grief and suffering for he still looked human when he
passed.
And this man they call the messiah, his suffering will put
you on a trance. This man was suffering an even greater pain, even greater than
the other man who died on the cross, this man; it was as if he was skinless.
Because he is suffering from a pain that he did not want and deserve but he
still goes through with it accepting it with every breath he takes. He was
stripped off his clothes and just by looking at him, makes you believe that he
is innocent. His pain, it is like being skinned alive.
It was of great pain, and agony and torture, but what he is
implying with the pain he endured and took was, even though he was tortured
like this,
he still loves.
He loves his family, friends and yes even his enemies. He is
a man of universal love, which he has proven again with his sacrifice.
His mother is before his feet, she is embracing the cross,
the very cross that took her son’s life away, she is crying as if her eyes are
gone. She has cried in blood, because there are no more tears to cry about.
Truly a mother’s love is beyond almost every kind of love for her child. On her
knees, there grew a white flower that may symbolize her purity and virginity.
Beside his mother, was a woman, she was young but she was of sin, she is a
prostitute. But she loved him, no one knew what kind of love, she is also
weeping for him. They were both crying out their souls. And at her knees there
also grew a white flower, a white flower she destroyed upon as she knelt, she
was given the purity and virginity, but she destroyed it entirely in the eyes
of most people who barely know her.
And as a last attempt to end all attempts, a soldier on his
horse comes forth to see if the one they called King of Kings has died. The
soldier lunges his spear as if he was a devil that enjoyed lunging his
pitchfork to the messiah’s right rib, and it all ends. The sky turned black, as
if the world was at its end. The sky falls of the sun’s light.
Blood spewed more from the stab and with this fatal wound,
he died. He bled as if it drained all his blood, he bled as if he was a man
with out a doubt of what happened, he bled as if his blood was wine, that could
wash away sin, he bled like a normal man which he claims he is and he is not,
for his body is only man but his soul is the son of God. He bled for his
friends, his believers, his mother, even for his enemies...
He bled for you."
Marius Black
Manila,
2005
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