Peter's Song

Peter’s Song

​“Upside down you’re turning me

​You’re giving love instinctively”

​A paradox, contrary thing,

​lion/lamb, servant/King

​My King, our King, their King

​Breaking

​Breaking down before our eyes

​Beaten, abandoned and despised

​Can’t take any more

​I’m finished, I’m done

​Can’t feel the heat anymore from the Son

​‘It is finished’ – even you said that

​Just dropped your head

​No fight, just dead.

​And yet…

​Something niggles at the back of my mind

​Those looks you gave, like I was blind

​Hurt, disappointed but not unkind.

​When the women came and said what they’d seen

​I had to be sure and now I’m running

​Rushing wind through sleeping streets​

​Exhilaration in my feet

​“Choose life…

​Choose a future”

​A different beat.

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​Something’s happened I can’t explain

​But nothing will ever be the same.

​I’m seeing things from the other side

​Love survived. It’s death that died.

​“Upside down you’re turning me”

​Quite literally, upside…down.

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​Kate Ritchie