Nursing

Offered seeds in arbor

Carrying crosses

Is a solid harbor

Heart on sides

Securely barred

But for one opening

To celestial Home

Flinging wide

To Kingdom come...

In bloom

To many-headed scars

Unshakable surrender

Into His chisel

Radiant, of beauty scars,

A vertical being,

Scarred yet unmarred,

Not robbed by

All horizontal mesh

For healing power

Flows boundlessly,

Perpetually from

Immaculate Flesh...

Cultivating

Offering seeds in arbor

O Blessed Cross

Is a safe harbor

To wipe

Tears profuse of Blood

Flowing

With Love's flood

Evolving orderly

Is intimately tied

With the Blood of

The Immaculate Offerer,

Defeating enemy -

The ferocious murderer

In carrying crosses

Finding firm harbor,

Encountering

Fruits plentiful

In one's own

And others' arbor

Flowing with

The flood of Blood

Going through water and fire

Wholesomely in love...

Caught in Cross Fire...

Bleeding with Him...

Bearing pain for Him...

Suffering in Him...

Caught in Fire -

The Blood of Love

The flood of Blood...

Armed,

              Protective,

                                   Mighty flood....