He falls the third time.

Powerless Power by Larycia Hawkins

All Power becomes powerless

Powerless in a donkey stall in deference to His destiny

Powerless on a donkey, in character for prophetic political theater

Powerless to take the cup away in obeisance of the will of Thine

Powerless to speak the truth to power in deference to the plan of I AM 

Powerless to lash out against violence in submission to the Prophets

Powerless to forsake forsakenness in accomplishment of It Is Finished

Powerlessness contingent—transformed to power in the Cross

 Powerlessly forsaken in death, yet

All Power transforms death to life 

All Power empowers the powerless—women and children, poor and prostitutes, widows and aliens, prisoners and pariahs, depressed and disabled 

All Power declares that unless we become powerless, we fail to understand Him and we have no part in Him

All Power bids that we come powerless and empty-handed to a peculiar feast of faith where eating His body and drinking His blood are neither crazy nor cannibalistic acts, but rather, the reality that defines all other reality

All Power subsumes everything in this radical feast of His perfect body and declares all good by His righteous blood

All Power declares that power is perfected in weakness—which He redefines, ironically, as strength

All Power ushers in a peaceable kingdom where

Powerlessness is power