Judas has always had a bad press
from when he could not forgive himself
for mistakes that he was not the author of
to when he took the rope and killed himself,
to become the patron saint of suicide,
He was dead before Jesus died on the cross.
so Judas joined the dead before Jesus did,
when Jesus descended there, and took those
who were meant to live to the hereafter.
That was where they first remet,
after Jesus' death in which Judas
play his part, against his own will
and against the wishes of those around them.
Nobody knows what they shared
after so much drama, any more
than they know what Judas' disciples life
was like-it was never written down.
If wanted to remember Judas Iscariot
I would prefer to imagine that unwritten life,
the three years during which the disciples
were sent out, and found their teacher
as they met the needs of the needy,
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