Words From Women, March 21

"I battled to know my God real in the dark
while living in his silence, in the sense of his absence.
Now and then, lightning forked from the sky,
like a mystical sword or a watery sun gleaned from the earth's edge.
Sometimes I felt a glimmering of spirit,
like a clear night in the country,
away from the artificial city brightness ...
But mostly it was a long darkness, like a sentence of death."

Poet Luci Shaw, "God In The Dark"