Often as the saying goes many are left carrying cross in real life. The phrase is used when one is left is shock, bewilderment , agony, pain, humiliation etc especially by persons we love and care. Burden is cross. and when we think about Christ who carried a heavy cross we consider ours as light. A poem dedicated for those carrying pain. An apt one for lent season.


Carrying cross


Often I felt that I am following you my lord
Laden with cross, heavy as scripter's told
Cross of realities, true -life made me hold
Cross of pain, humility and shame you showed

When a community or neighbourhood I live
Do not allow to aid, with joy I humbly give
Hamper to enrich, enlighten, knowledge of height
I really felt I am carrying a cross of weight


The place I work and earn very well
Do not permit to serve the deserved
Moulds me as puppet Deaf, Dum and Blind
I really felt I am carrying a cross of weight

The family I own and wish to cherish
Often fails to know and lets me down
And do not share or support the cause
I really felt I am carrying a cross of weight

When the best friends I treasured most
Abandoned me for selfish aims they boast
Gazing the sultry lane shrunk with shock
I really felt that I am carrying a cross of weight.




JACINTHA MORRIS
WELFARE ASSISTANT
AG'S OFFICE
TRIVANDRUM

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