Friday, April 02, 2021

Death and entrance

 

(thoughts approaching Easter 6)


Friday approaches

like a black cloud on a dark sky.

Stealing through the strangling night

it brings a morrow like no other.

Blood stands at its entrance;

a door that allows no exit

but invites pain

and separation in its portal.


We walk to the hill of proclamation

alone in the witnessing crowd,

alone in an embarrassment of emotion,

alone and stranded on an island of fear.


This hill holds no secrets

but gossips its hollow victory

to troubled, trembled, souls

that do not comprehend

but see only finality, darkness'

eternal storms

and an immovable stone -

there is no hope, no opening beyond.


Elsewhere a curtain breaks like dawn.


Light shines in

and out

from a Holy place.




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