The fifth: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Mark 15:34)
My God, how brutal your abandonment! All your fury-horde now overwhelms me. Ah! you withdraw from me your God-light and your grace. I am a worm, most miserable of all. My sweet refreshment? Harsh and bitter bile. But it will be my comfort and sweet pleasure if through my own I can dispel all others' pain. In greatest anguish, my heart always flows with love. I'd rather see myself than them forsaken, and when I suffer much, and even more, it does not trouble me, if they will gain from it. If my abandonment can be a source of comfort for them, then let me be abandoned. My blood shall flow and they shall be revived. Click here to read this sonnet in the original German. Note: the document linked here contains the entire series of 7 sonnets.