After he received the piece of bread, Satan entered into [Judas].
Jesus said to him, "Do quickly what you are going to do."
-- John 13:27

Judas, Peter
by Luci Shaw

because we are all
betrayers, taking
silver and eating
body and blood and asking
(guilty) is it I and hearing
him say yes
it would be simple for us all
to rush out
and hang ourselves

but if we find grace
to cry and wait
after the voice of morning
has crowed in our ears
clearly enough
to break our hearts
he will be there
to ask us each again
do you love me


(from A Widening Light: Poems of the Incarnation, 2000)