Adoration
A mass of people on a plain
All those who live and ever lived
Face the everlasting
A plain of such immense extent
That souls from the beginning to the end
Will not fill it all
Around them and behind them
Refulgence of the everlasting
Fills eternity
We who faced the light-creating sun
The host of God
The monstrance in the sanctuary
Were bathed by light
Our faces shining by reflection
As we stood contemplation
Light streamed
From the sun-like source of love
In joy everlasting
All our faces shone with love’s reflected light
Behind us stretched
The oval shadows of existence
Within the shadows
Moved the phantoms of the darkness
The unforgiven ones
When we souls who faced the light
Forgave
We moved more deeply toward the light
Our shadows fell behind us
And were lost
In the flowing of forgiveness
And then I heard the whispers
Of the ones who waited
Moving in the shadows
Those who offered their forgiveness
Adored
The light that welcomed them
They moved forward
Toward the One
Who loves all living things
The Trinity to us is light
The light is Christ
And Christ is our eternity
Pavel
April 9, 2011
