τραύμα
The Light of Darkness
Oh cave of my heart
Such are your depths
Your earth song beating
Rhythmic and grounded
Pumping my blood
For every moment
A human cries out
In my presence
A river of love flowing
Toward their trauma
Oh soul of my soul
Such is your breadth
So face-to-face
I draw near
Softly, as he pleads
For release from
Schizophrenic demons
Hear God in his pleas.
Oh cave of my heart
Such is your wordless
Distance, that I may
Anoint with oil near
The wound in his head
My own breath interrupted
As he is dying
And as his mother breaks
See the Holiness of their bond.
Oh soul of my soul
Such is your thin veil
That I am drawn
To catch her with
My own body
A mother collapsing
Under the weight
Of her daughter’s Femicide.
See the Sacred power of her love.
Oh cave of my heart
Such are the holy tears
Through which I see
To hold steady
With the girl bent
On killing herself
From rape trauma
Feel the Divine fighting for her.
Oh soul of my soul
Such is your spaciousness
In which I am held
To hold space for
Violent chaos, to
Quiver with empathy
In the blood and carnage
Of gunshot victims
Perceive the closeness of Christ.
O cave of my heart
Such is your regal and wide
Darkness that I may dwell
In strength for the sex
Trafficking victim unmoored
In this world crying
“Where are You?”
To God in the chapel of
The trauma hospital
See her in the Divine Image.
O soul of my soul
Such is your labyrinthine ground
Upon which I walk
That compassion meet trauma
Care meet illness
Gentleness meet loneliness
Hope meet depression
Stillness meet psychosis
Understanding meet suicidality
Peace meet pain
Reverence meet death
Kindness meet fear
Love meet despair
Respect meet humanity
Oh cave of my heart
Such are your depths
Your earth song beating
Rhythmic and grounded
Pumping my blood
For every moment
A human cries out
In my presence
A river of love flowing
Toward their trauma
Mary Sue Barnett, ARCWP
Priest Chaplain
Leve 1 Trauma Hospital
&
Psychiatric Hospital
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