Blemished

The trees shook with fury,
The air blew with mighty gusts,
Creatures took refuge
As He entered the garden,
The garden of living souls
Thus, ‘ere begins this tale.

Ages back He had walked
The same garden with elation,
Tumultous welcome He had enjoyed,
From all, sans man.
“Created I have beings in multitude”, He thought
“Intelligence I havn’t bestowed
Supreme to any being.”
Thus He created man.

Ages back He felt proud
Of His creation and art
The world was His canvas
And He painted it majestically.
But little did He know,
The He had painted painters
Who could blemish His painting;
Little did His painters know
That He could wipe them off
With a stroke His brush.

Ages back He felt dismayed
When His creation challenged Him back
Dismayed, not because of His art
But at their foolishness.
With a heavy heart he laughed-
“Fledgelings may bite
But a swipe is all it takes to wipe them away.”
Alas! His love betrayed Him,
He never swiped, so they bit and gnawed at Him,
Until today arrived.

Ages back He had walked His canvas
As one of His own paintings
He preached, He showed men the way to walk,
He showed them the road to follow,
And so, He walked the same road;
To misery, suffering, pain,
To show men the worst.
He walked, with a cross on His back,
Thorns on His head, with nails on His body,
He bled, to redeem the sins of men
To cleanse His own painting with his own “blood”.

The trees still shook with fury,
Th air no longer welcomed Him,
His canvas was nothing but smoke,
Opaque,
To hide what His painters had done,
To hide from His wrath,
To hide the destruction;
The garden of living souls
Was nothing more than a graveyard.

Still He walked,
His creatures spat at Him,
Man, was obscure,
Wiped out over chaos,
But He could hear their wails in the wind,
Vague apparitions in the smoke,
Pointing at Him, scowling at Him, shrieking at Hm.

The garden of living souls
Was no longer an abode for beauty,
Darkness had descended.He stood and wept, for ages
Until the smoke dissolved,
The trees vaporized, the winds died,
And His canvas fell.