Untitled Poem (Museo Del Prado)

"The Raising of Lazarus"

Ribera lo Spagnoletto, Jusepe de

ca. 1616

The glow of light around Him

It doesn’t have to be flashy to be capturing.

Here is your protagonist. 

A gaze of absolute authority. 

Death cannot resist

Whatever He commands all will do.

I fall in love with this Man of supreme force. 

Why won’t You command my unhappiness, command my sickness, command all pain and evil?

None could resist You should Your gaze pierce them, Your finger command them.

This is the mystery of mercy, the mystery of omnipotence, the harshness of power.

Yet who can I love?

Who else will capture me?

Who else will bring my soul into its depths?

Who else walked the dark path of greatest love?

Who else can be?

Who else can do?

There is only You.