Title

Giving Blood (Mosiah 3:7; Mosiah 4:2)

Book Title

The Glory of the Son

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Year of Publication

2019

Authors

Anderson, Sharon Price (Primary)

Number of Pages

133 Publisher

Time Lines Etc.

City

Orem, UT

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Giving Blood

Reclining here in

sterile comfort,

I squeeze the foam block

that fits neatly in the palm

of my hand and watch the

bag at the end of the red

tube begin to bulge.

In a few minutes,

I’ll be offered juice

and cookies. Tomorrow

I won’t even notice

the tiny bruise on my arm.

But here, I remember

my mother and consider

her bed of pain and sacrifice

the day I was born.

I think about those whose

life fluid flowed for freedom

onto muddy battlefields,

the wounded who still limp

when the weather is damp

and their buddies

who ate their last rationed

meal in cold trenches.

I picture a garden and hill

where, in atoning agony,

Another’s blood was

also spilled for me.

Subject Keywords

Poetry

Atonement

Garden of Gethsemane

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