The Journey Across The Night Seapart Ii Poem by Daniel Brick

A thousand faces were released at once.
They floated slowly upward, gently rolling
in a circle as they rose into the sky.
Their eyes were shining from some hidden
source of light not visible to mortal eyes.
We were transfixed, we stared at them
for the duration of their ascent. They looked
down on us with compassionate eyes, tender
expressions flitting across their features.
I was speechless that so much love could
radiate from human faces. It seemed that
our vigilant watching was itself part of
this ceremony unfolding above us. The last
thing we saw were their eyes, even more
strangely illuminated, blinking again and
again as if they could not believe what
they were seeing, as if the wonder of it
transcended even their exalted state of grace.
And then it was over, the vision closed...
The nineteen who had been asleep awoke, having
dreamed what the four of us had witnessed.
The Mysterious Barge and its ghostly captain
were vanished. And our ship was surging forward
with propitious winds and friendly currents.
Once again, we were just sailors in a goodly ship
on a vast ocean under the pure blue light of morning.
The twenty-two men started debating what had happened,
then they argued without listening to each other,
some came to blows. But I remained calm. I knew
the Reign of Heaven on Earth was beginning and we
had entered an Eternity that would seal Earth and
Heaven into One Reality.In God's good time, which
has always been the best time, this would transpire.
All praise to God and His Angels and His Saints!