Beaten Beyond

Beaten beyond recognition

A mutilation extreme

The sacrificial lamb prepared for slaughter

God in the form of man, holy and supreme

Chief priest plot to kill based on blasphemy

Innocent blood, betrayed and denied

Case built on envy

Not a word spoken in defense

Witnesses no longer needed

Symbolic washing of the hands

The crowds violent hatred feeded

Fulfillment of the prediction

Acknowledgement counted among the wicked

The onslaught of agony

Despisement shown in a bloodied frenzy

Arrival of the execution

Excruciating pain entwined with suffocation

Testimony of humiliations punishing demands

Pouring fourth the innocent blood of the Nazarene

Mourning over the body, awaiting anointing

Darkness reveling, a sorrowful doom

Lamented weeping concluded at the skull

Covenant shed, forgiveness of sins