What Was, What is, What is to Come

the lamp is the Lamb

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The shock of it,
a cold plunge.
The thievery of breath;
the shivers of the heart.
You gasp.

Will you drown as
deep calls to deep?
A slow fade,
a sinking,
a series of smothered dreams.

Visions of what was,
terrors of what is,
fear of what is to come.

You’d cry out but
who would hear?
Who could care?
You’ve been cast down,
downcast.

Still, the sun shines,
a spotlight, 
cascading through ripples,
if only you’d look up.

It’s then that you recall,
down in the deep,
”the lamp is the Lamb.”
The sun is the Son.

The One
who was,
and is,
and is to come.

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