This poem is inspired by the Feast of the Tabernacles and its symbolism in regards to the return of the resurrected Messiah in Christian tradition. The Feast of the Tabernacles is described in Leviticus 23, Numbers 29 and Deuteronomy 16. Additionally the symbolisms is well described in this article.

Save, we pray, those who wound us most.
Come in exalted holy guests, the unseeing and doomed host.
Come by the road lined with palm and myrtle tree.
Seven days you must walk, willow in hand, to feast with me.

Eat only the citron found on your way by the roadside.
To remind you of the bitter pain of the dead, now beatified.
Come then to the temple, walk round about there seven times,
Willow in hand to clean the path of blood from horrid crimes.

Enter a small hut at the base of the Temple divine.
Be welcomed to a feast on which all, who choose, can dine.
See there the Lord of Hosts, exuding joy, his pure essence.
Proclaim YHVW, Adonai, I am not worthy in your presence.

My son you have followed my path and cleansed it of my blood.
Thus sayeth the Lord of Host your sins are washed away as a flood.
For the Messiah taketh upon his tabernacle the pain of all mankind.
The doomed host may feast as exalted holy guests, eyes no longer blind.

By A.B Griffin