Whenever there is silence around me By day or by night— I am startled by a cry. It came down from the cross— The first time I heard it. I went out and searched— And found a man in the throes of crucifixion, And I said, "I will take you down," And I tried to take the nails out of his feet. But he said, "Let them be For I cannot be taken down Until every man, every woman, and every childCome together to take me down." And I said, "But I cannot hear you cry. What can I do?" And he said, "Go about the world— Tell everyone that you meet— There is a man on the cross." |