Against the Cataclysmic
turmoil
of all ages,
the darkened sky,
earth shaking with
its violence,
there gleams the Son of Man
upon a Cross,
a silhouette of silence
in the storm.
What has this darkening death-event
just done
but highlight holiness,-
integrity intense,
the victim of our violence.
Upon the darkened clouds
the Son appears:
Light heightens
Dark
and thereby conquers it.
(On reading James Alison ‘Raising Abel’ p.147)
