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DARK NIGHT
When all is stripped away
after the God of love takes all your loves
then
all the world will be grief
and the air shrill with silence.
Wait in the emptiness
for every touch is absence.
Remember
it is Mystery that draws you
beyond the jaws
grinding you into the night.
Lou Ella Hickman is a member of the Sisters of the Incarnate
Word and Blessed Sacrament. She has been a teacher, a freelance
writer and as a spiritual director. Her poems and articles have been
published in numerous magazines and in poetry books.
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