Take me over

Take me over
 
Take me over, comforting warmth, 
as the hours grow short, tomorrows dwindle
 
and the nights are ripe with His presence.
The candle has begun to gutter
 
and the world is reduced to two
before the two become One.
 
The old torch in the chest sizzles and glows,
carried here from a distant fire –
 
a Tomb on a hill eight thousand miles away
and thirty years later and I am alone
 
with a peace beyond my circumstances.
Take me over in this delicious solitude
 
that confirms my faith and foretells of union
not to come later but now – the ever-present, eternal now.
 
Take me over and we shall share
these wordless moments before I am no longer me –
 
I, who never was and never has been
and never will be apart from You.
 
O child of God, burn in the glow,
the silence and warmth of His Presence.   

(painting by Joe DiSabatino)