Saturday 1 August 2020
Likha George, Poetry 2020 Featured Writer
The Crosier
The hooked staff is pastoral
So is the curled top of a young fern
Surmounted by a Cross or cruz
Shepherd or Abbot, does it matter?
The shepherd's crook stood for kingship
And the flail for the fertility of the land
Attributes of the deity Osiris
Insignia of pharaoic authority.
Chasubles, copes, cassocks
Vestments, entitlements, privileges
Crook stylized, is a symbol unique
Of eminence and authority.
Symbol of the coercive dominion:
Shepherd of his flock, the potentate;
Herding and restraining the laity
To every whim and passion alike.
Novices in habits, greens of furled ferns
Coercion demeans, suicide the escape;
Systemic tales of lust, enslaving
Power of the crosier, not consent, mattered.
The spur and stimulus appeared a day
In the riposte of a vindicated Medusa,
Satanic, debauched insolence chastised,
The crosier lay broken along with its holder.
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