09-21-2011, 12:41 PM
Mary is placid as rain. It will be, it will go,
and one day soon may be again.
Returning to the first repose
of a mother, newly spent,
she holds her adult son.
What was once a hairless brow
is fringed with thorns and blood;
Pain has exited the stage;
only applause is left.
We can but pray our mothers know what Mary did that day.
![[Image: Pieta-rs5069.jpg]](http://saintpetersbasilica.org/Altars/Pieta/Pieta-rs5069.jpg)
Pietà (Italian for "pity") is a term for artworks, most often sculpture, which depict the Virgin Mary cradling Jesus after his crucifixion. The Pietà pictured is by Michelangelo (1475 - 1564).
and one day soon may be again.
Returning to the first repose
of a mother, newly spent,
she holds her adult son.
What was once a hairless brow
is fringed with thorns and blood;
Pain has exited the stage;
only applause is left.
We can but pray our mothers know what Mary did that day.
Pietà (Italian for "pity") is a term for artworks, most often sculpture, which depict the Virgin Mary cradling Jesus after his crucifixion. The Pietà pictured is by Michelangelo (1475 - 1564).
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe