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Paradise is lost, I, Judas, know. Christ asked me to betray Himself. I betrayed. I threw the silver coins into the temple. I hanged myself and my filthy life was over. But I still live, in all men lives a Judas. All betray their ideals in the end. They admit that they are Judases before they acknowledge that Love concerns all beggars of mercy. Poet's note. Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus.

 I died for others,  suffered, healed, lived,  I could not heal myself while bleeding on the cross. Why did you reject me?  I was Jesus of Nazareth,  man, God.  The man who suffered, rose, and disappeared,  and who so many have claimed to be  after me,  but I did not reappear,  I was human.