They Said It Is All Clear Now

The stone body

And the stone face

With the living voice

And the living breath-

All roads led to this

And what new road now is left?

There should have been a shore road

There should have been an opposite coast

According to the waters my mind dipped into

But my senses said inland

And the senses know more

My senses said inland

They said the sound of the sea

And not its waters he walked on

Who walked on the waters at Galilee

They said it is all clear now

There is no mystery

He who walked always on mountains

And on rocks

How other than on the surface,

They said, could he have crossed

He who had to die upon the cross

Because he never knew the seas of love

Because he found always dry ground there

Never got drowned there

Never was lost

The stone body

With the eyelids

Closed . .. but not in sleep

Was this his Golgotha also

Whom the innocent little ones ask to keep

Over their toy ships vigil

As their tired limbs sink in the deep

Marcia NaARDI