Michael Stalcup is a Thai American missionary living in Bangkok.
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The Cross and the Lynching Tree
09-28-2020
A poem.
Illustration by Ric Carrasquillo
We shudder at the inhumanity,
the crafted cruelness of that sickening show:
the stripped humiliation, blasphemy
of beaten flesh, death’s agonies stretched slow
by fellow men created in God’s image,
turned terrorists, enslaved to sin’s strange fruit.
How could they mock the marred and lifeless visage
of God’s own child? His axe is at the root!