The Confession of Maximos / Joshua Alan Sturgill
Holy Maximos
have you a final word
before your sentence
is pronounced? his accusers asked
as he stood before them
in the great porphyry-pillared Judgement Hall
of Constantinople
But what he said to them
they could not understand
because his words were a river of blood
and when he reached out
to give them an image of the Light
they could not receive it
because they had cut off their hands
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