Beautiful music and a poem inspired by it, that I wrote a few weeks ago. I first wrote it in Afrikaans, and now translated it as well for this post. The Afrikaans version (“Smekend om Lig”) can be found on Kammastories today.
Pleading for Light
(Poem after Antiphona post Evangelium)
O, my God, how dost Thou know when to answer?
from the depths of darkness my soul pleads for Light
but receive no answer.
may I – flesh-enshrouded soul – ask it?
hope fades.
everything becomes as night around me –
friends, friendship and love
fades to a shadow.
and then, suddenly a song sounds.
From the darkness rustles voices with
the sound of the Angels.
They sing to Thy Glory.
They sing from the past.
in their own dark time they answer:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
the voices brings Thy Light to me and
I – flesh-enshrouded soul – can see and sing
and reach out to a morsel of Thy blessing.
Written after listening to “Antiphona post Evangelium”, an Ambrosian chant by an anonymous writer. Sung by In Dulci Jubilo on the CD Discover Early Music by Naxos.
Photo by John Nyberg at http://www.sxc.hu
