MOVES DARKNESS VAST

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But this condition is permanent;
This comedy of beauty and delight
Is like the snow, the dew, the leaf, the night,
Like snow it melts and quickly it is spent;
Like dew it shines and swiftly it is gone;
Like leaf it blows, then quietly it falls
Like night it has its stars but through its halls
Moves darkness vast enveloping the sun.

Vast is night’s darkness; but more vast, more deep,
More fearful is the darkness of unknowing;
The ignorance that makes the soul to sleep,
That stops the light of God in man from growing;
And fills the human heart with fear, instead,
And turns the earth into a house of dread.

-BENITO REYES
DIALOGUES WITH GOD
Sonnet psalms on the significance of being human
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THE TEARS, THE TEARS OF THINGS

But, oh, the tears, the tears of things that flood
The earth and sky, my Lord: the leaves that fall;
The flowers that fade; the birds that die; and all
The agony of flesh and bone and blood.
And how about the loneliness of heart
Bereft of care; the aches of dark disease;
The sorrow of despair on bended knees
Beyond the help of science and art.

Well I remember one so sweet and young
Who died both hopelessly and tearlessly
Of fell disease beyond both thought and tongue;
She shed no tears, O Lord, not fearlessly:
The anguish was too deep for fearlessness;
There, perhaps, too, are tears of tearlessness.

-Benito Reyes
(Dialogues With God –
Sonnet psalms on the significance of being human)