An image of a victim in a body bag; the result of a suicide bombing in Jerusalem during the recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict translates as a modern Station of the Cross, confronting the death and burial of Christ. It concerns everyone in that each of us will be touched by grief and loss at some time or other.
In a body bag there is all the time
in and out. The ultimate void.
The inside story.
And nobody is listening.
What comes next is a miracle of course.
What doesn't happen is also a miracle
and the bits in between.
The body and its wounds and its gradual
escape from form. The mind also escaping
and the soul already released.
The silence. Light lifting everything
already beyond anything we have
ever known.
All the words. All the texts.
All the earth knowledge now transcending
beyond light and its measurements,
beyond meaning.
God's hands already holding.