Poem

The dawn after nuclear fallout

Is hushed and beautiful

The silence of sunlight rising from the ash heap

An emptiness that is utterly free

Jesus, I throw myself headlong

Into the waterfall of your grace

The blood like endless waves

Lapping over me like the forgetful sea

The bliss of gore and grime melting away

Into the ocean of your suffering

Your pain erasing mine

And setting me free

The holocaust has taken my all

And in this shadow of death I see you

And only you

You whose shadow is light

I kneel and give you my all, again

7/20/13