Shadow play

Shadow play                                                                                                    
 
In the world, we play God’s game –
indulge in physicality, personality.
 
Explore our milieu; search for meaning,
fulfill our destiny – all within an ignorance
 
so vast and profound it’s beyond
our capacity to know and accept. 
 
It’s God’s shadow play and we’re bound to it
until by some fated stroke of grace
 
someone grabs an elbow and pulls us (each) 
from the procession; the whole arrangement,
 
we discover, founded upon suggestion
and assumptions built into our human frame.
 
Shadows for the Maker to hide in until He’s ready
to step forth, shatter with revelation our every illusion.
 
And we learn that the price of laying down
this burden of life is so astonishingly cheap –
 
only ourselves, only our fraudulent,
frightened, exhausted selves.
 
O child of God, prepare for grace
by acquainting yourself with the emptiness of phenomena.