The Veil Of Veronica

This poem is dedicated to all Christians. May all diverse religions of the world find common ground to talk peace and achieve it. I thank everyone for reading. God bless you!

The Veil

I pause to wonder
and in deep wonderment
what recesses of the
illusory world you may
have been lost to
in antiquity.

Are you buried or
somehow preserved
deeper and deeper
beneath the ever
thickening sands of
the desert somewhere?
Or does one ancient cave
contain you for discovery,
like the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Come, a shrine awaits
you! A relic of such glorious
moment in time Veronica
must have gently folded
in place with great care and
loving tenderness, and kept
for posterity.

For on the veil had been
imprinted not just the sweat
and tears from a great
suffering when she wiped
Jesus with it on the way to
Calvary but...also his face,
the face of God!

June 22, 2011 (please see article where originally published, with an image, thanks to ExpertsColumn).

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