Book Three: His House At Night. Poem by Wayne Sowell

Poem One.

1 Should you come into His House at night?

2 Can you hold the night of Him?

3 The meaning of dark and death?

4 Can you in self mourn this loss?

5 One has been slain in the fields in the wood.

6 The blackest of three nights finds beginning.

7 Forget not either star or treasury.Ponder.

Poem Two.

1 A stream divided love

2 A forest separated the heart

3 Streams have held smooth stones for a future king

4 Woods have given palaces to princes

5 All wealth holds and owes heart to the ground

6 Remember soon the riches

7 The treasuries have lain in store.

Poem Three.

1 Nights wherein He made them to be his hiding place

2 Holding love without light for a space of time

3 No candle burning

4 No hope extinguished

5 Holding all for the length of nights

6 The beauty of holiness

7 Fashioned in dark before being known to day.

Poem Four.

1 It was sometimes late at night

2 That His mysteries were shared with me

3 And we laid the pieces of life out

4 And we puzzled how it was to be

5 I held the fragrance of Him behind me

6 It was the scent of candy and the innocence of children

7 In the darkness I knew Him, the day had killed.

Poem Five.

1 Trees and death

2 Dying and leaves for healing

3 Blood

4 And the heart that blood breaks

5 The Father dying, the son left behind

6 One to the other

7 No difference made.

Poem Six.

1 The stream had been crossed before division came

2 Upon His shoulders I was carried

3 And the water was never too deep

4 For a Father's love and care in carrying.

5 It is how when the son fell, the father found Him

6 The stream was a little while

7 The wood was a shorter place.

Poem Seven.

1 Together every stream was known

2 Every wooded place shared

3 Water wood

4 Hunting, sporting

5 It was all between Father and Son

6 Brothers

7 Friends who followed the footsteps to His Treasuries.