Day 312: For Thirty Pieces of Silver

Today's Reading: Matthew 26, Mark 14

For thirty pieces of silver
(twenty five dollars today)
A slave in the mire pits of Egypt
Could be bought and sent free away.

For thirty pieces of silver
(the wages for one week of work)
A man tried to buy off a prophet
who threw the coins back in the dirt.

For thirty pieces of silver
(enough for a sword and a knife)
An impatient zealot sold Jesus
Blood money to buy yet more strife.

For thirty pieces of silver
(imagine the grief of no hope)
The betrayer sought silence from anguish
At the end of a strangling rope.

For thirty pieces of silver
(to purchase a small plot of land)
A grave yard to bury the outcasts
Became the snake-like priests' plan.

For thirty pieces of silver
(the price of a Passover Lamb)
The eternal crown Prince of All Heaven
Brought vict'ry to those Satan damned.