Empty

Easter - Year C 

Empty

so late in time

what seemed like evening

was finally remembered

as beginning

and there was evening

and morning

darkness before dawn

is the longest dark

we lose track of one another

and no night-vision goggle

can see ahead in time

or move a stone

the lost are lost

and gone gone gone

there is no understanding

mystery is mystery

emptiness means theft

emptiness brings weeping

emptiness precedes hearing

no matter how focused our eye

it is the echo of our name

that calls us back

to see what is

in front of us anew

from emptiness

we let go

with emptiness

we go

in emptiness

we meet