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Darkest Night, Morning Lights

Darkest Night, Morning Lights

By Mark D. Stucky
Darkness descends
        upon the rocky land,
        and fills a tomb
        of a slaughtered Lamb.
With that unmerited death,
        everything seems lost,
        and hope seeps away
        into stone cracks.
Trembling tears and fears
        consume devastated disciples,
        scattered about Jerusalem
        and hiding in shadows.
Until the appointed time
        this Sunday morning,
        when light bursts forth,
        vanquishing darkness
        above and from an empty tomb.
Two ascending lights this morning,
        risen sun
        and Risen Son.

(First published in Agape Review, 17 April 2022. See also my poems "Resurrection iBodies," "The God Behind the Curtain," and "Gilded Crosses?")

(Image by Gerd Altmann on Pixabay.com.)

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