Saturday 6th March

The freeing of Legion (Mark 5:1-20)

There are

No words.

Only screaming

Silent agony

Black despair

No future

Only death

Utterly alone

And lost

In all

The universe.

No light

No sign

Of grace

No place

To hide

No shelter

No arms

To hold

Only instead

Limitless grief

Overwhelming rage

Paralysing terror

Helplessly trapped

An end

To good

No end

To pain

No rescue

No one

To care

To see

To understand

Reach out

Or touch

And find.

Hope lost

An eternity

Of isolation.

Only silence

And darkness.

This, then,

Is hell.

And then

A boat landed

On the shore.

By Jeannie Kendall