I wonder what I would have done,
Had I been there in that crowd.
Would I have spoken up for Him,
In a voice clear and loud?
Would I have walked beside Him,
Down that dirty, rock strewn road?
Would I have tried to steady Him,
As He stumbled with His load?
Would I have let Him lean against me?
Would I have gladly borne His weight?
Could I have helped in anyway,
To ease His great heartache?
Could I have said the proper words,
To comfort His aloneness.
To show I shared His sorrow,
To attend to His forlornness?
I wonder if I'd been there,
Would I have stroked His tear stained cheek?
And kissed His bloodied hands,
And washed His bloodstained feet?
Would I have rubbed His aching shoulders,
Put soothing lotion on His back?
Tended to His open wounds,
And supplied the water that He lacked.
I know I was not good enough,
To volunteer to take His place,
But could I have helped Him bear that cross,
And kept the sweat from His dear face?
Would I have put my arms around His mother,
And hugged her to my breast?
Could I have shielded her from viewing,
Her precious Son's tormented death?
Could I have helped prepare His body,
And have bathed Him with perfume?
I wonder if I'd been there,
Would I have waited by His tomb?
No doubt that Easter morning,
I would have shouted, "He Is Risen!"
And I know I would have thanked my God,
For that most joyous of occasions.
I'm so sorry that He suffered,
And I am sad it was that way.
But I know it was God's plan for man.
And because of it, we're saved.
The only thing I could have done,
I suppose, had I been there.
Would have been to state my love for Him,
And to tell Him that I cared.
~Virginia Ellis~
Copyright ã 2000
