Simon of Cyrene

He was but a passerbyer - on his way to the most important day of his life
When he was seized and bullied into carrying a cross made not for him but
For death - he went home afters: tired and forlorn: his wife angry, his children
Hungry, his work undone, he sat alone and rubbed his shoulders the pain still
Felt upon his blades - had he done so wrong in life that at the exact moment
On his way to the most important day of his life - he was halted, reduced to
No more that a beast to bear the most intolerable of the intolerable and to view
Man whom he may have or may not have known before him - on his way to

the most important day of his life