Woman Why Are You Weeping? / by Justin Harrison


Saline grief

 

f

a

l

l

s

Between

strips of linen

The hasty steps

Of a breathless witness

White cloth draws

confusion and query

Why seek for warm bodies

in cold climbs?

Woman 

why are you weeping? 

And Why do our desires miss the mystery unfolding before us?

Deeper

than

the

earths

foundational

trenches

In the emptiness

In the quiet

Are answers 

To questions unformed 

More profound

Than the sum total

of life time

of dreams and desires

In the dark

In the dark 

In the dark

Familiar cadences 

bring comfort 

and revelation

To tired hidden hearts

In the breath

Fear is cast out

benediction ushered in

And forgiveness 

Becomes boundless