NEWMAN'S "14 STATIONS"

You are secular
admitting your art
is to be separate
from any religious
consciousness
yet to take a journey
of a man's agony
without a Forbes-Burney
to the 14 stations
of the cross
in a contemplation
of your modernism
in 14 rooms
to think how God
was all alone
before His moving
death at Golgotha
where Abba, his daddy
abandoned Him
even in Abaddon
that he took everyone's
sin with Him
as the angels
cover their wings
on the eternal tomb
not wanting to lose
one soul.