Analysis of He is Not Here

He spoke hard words, and many left  him.
Demanding truth and love,
he whipped hypocrisy with firm resolve.
They thought they silenced him,
and  left without  remorse the shameful cross.

He spoke hard words,
and all but few abandoned him,
the Shepherd struck, the sheep dispersed,
the fishermen  to empty nets returned,
the women at the mill, hard toiling still.

He said hard things,
and they left him at the place of Skull,
but witness to his living Word,
three days hence,
above death, violence and pain,
dawned Resurrection Day.