The Easter Lamb 

I bear the brunt of the world!

It’s back-breaking, tedious and heavy.

I do so with tears rolling down my cheeks.

The sun caresses me with its scorching touch,

and even much deeper into the marks that the whips had scourged me with.

I can hardly bear the discomfort!

I feel the blistering heat of its palms all over me.

I feel fagged out with a traverse burden over my wearied shoulder.

It is an intersect burden of all global transgressions.

And it does weigh down my exhausted and pierced body.

I am absolved of all blame, but carry it I must!

I am guiltless and blameless, like the mildest of tender lambs.

But condemned with every verdict from the world’s outset to its end.

Joseph C Ogbonna is a widely published poet. Some of his works have been published online and in print. He has poems published in waxpoetry online magazine, written tales online magazine, PoetryXhunger, Spillwords, Micromance magazine, All your poems, All your Stories, Ihram, Urban witchcraft magazine, Poetrysoup and in about thirty different printed anthologies. He is also an Amazon International best selling co-author. He is an amateur historian. His poems ‘Napoleon to Josephine and Josephine to Napoleon,’ were aired by the BBC Radio 3, to mark the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte on May 2nd, 2021. He lives in Enugu, Nigeria.