how do you imagine it may happen
will it come all at once, suddenly
as so many say,
with the echo of Gabriel’s trumpet sounding
through the ears of all humanity?
have you ever anticipated
what you may be doing, at the moment
when Christ comes again
or is the Parousia something else
altogether, a newness of the spirit
we have never thought of before
something we can envision
and embrace even now
beyond all expectation, surprising
in the soft gentleness of its coming
O Lord, I have often imagined
Christ’s Second Coming
as something more than we may begin
to comprehend in this weary world
a binding of the Incarnate Word to
our soft flesh and hard bone
the inner meaning of God’s
deeper Word opening up within
the most vulnerable places
of the human heart
as tenderly and as wholly as a rose opens
under the warmness of sunlight
Christ is the rose then
blooming with brightness
filling us up with a newer light
a revelation if you will
an enlightenment even, that
welcomes him as this Second Coming
O Christ, let the Advent
of thy Second Coming
come upon us all like a great brightness
opening our hearts to your Word
the Word made flesh, this is what
we find in the celebration of the
Eucharist, the Great Thanksgiving
where you come to dwell in each of us
and we in you, and we in you
Ron Starbuck
Copyright 2010
