Sunday, April 16, 2017

Where Will You Sleep? (Holy Saturday)

Where will you sleep
when the world has fallen
upon the stony ground
to crack, to break,
to shatter on the earth?
When darkness, the day has won
and regrets stalk
the barren, lonely wastes
where, now, will you reside?
In Potter’s fields?
Or recline on couches?
As sleep’s embrace claims night
will your spirit
linger here or walk upon
the waves? Or tread the rocks
and thorny expanse?
As dreamers dream and
mourner’s weep; as soldier’s tread
the graves of men
will you grieve the labor’s lost
Or wait upon the end?
Too real the blood,
Too soon the tears have fled,
Too true the accusations.
What now to hope?
What promise now to cling
in sleepless hours of that

desperate day?

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