Echoes No.5: The Re-Creation

"Descend upon me like the Lord's shadow upon Jesus" So you prayed throughout a recent night of wounds and wonders. The pain inflicted on you was real and threatened to leave scars in your soul; the wonders you witnessed lifted your soul past harm of any kind. And so it is: every hurt calls forth its healing. I can only offer a purely human comfort, and the wonder of it is it is entirely sufficient... What is it you most desire now? Whatever it is, you know I share in its full measure. So you can let go of any clinging and let yourself fall and fall until you arrive at a summit unbelievably high where day and night blend into a perpetual twilight or an endless dawn light. We will fulfill even unspoken promises as I ascend to reach the depths you occupy, and you descend to arrive at the heights I command. It doesn't matter which happens first or second, because being there together is a destiny we fulfill by making neither effort nor resistance. We will stand side by side in a blue space spotted with trees, sliced by streams, and more of our kind will arrive with each moment of wonder we register. And so there will be a garden at the end as there was in the beginning.... (This poem is a response to "Descend Upon Me" by Baharak Barzin.)