Apparition

Apparition
 
 
She hovers in the ink black
            darkness, transfixed
            above the world, 
            in between breaths.
 
She radiates. Streams of light
            laser across the Infinite –
            interwoven with pearls of gold
            in luminous strings.
 
She speaks without words,
            with just the shimmering of wings
            and the sad, wide look of her eyes
            and curve of her hands in prayer.
 
She speaks without words
            to a world that does not listen.

It has been a long time since I posted.  There have been many reasons for this.  Most of all, there has been sadness.  Houston has sometimes been called Atlantis because hurricanes and tropical storms sometimes drop torrential rains into our area and, even from the sky, it looks like most of the city is underwater.  Every time this happens, people die and animals die and lives are changed forever.  My family was lucky.  We had no problems really.  Eight inches fell in 6 hours at my house, but we had no flooding in the house.  Our neighborhood was cut off from the rest of Houston by flooding for several hours, but that was just inconvenience and not hardship.  The flooding situation has made me very sad for the many people who lost their lives and loved ones.  But, then, there has been so much sadness in the world for different reasons. These are the times I wish for apparitions -- for some connection with the Divine to help us understand the reasons behind the tragedies -- either the natural disasters or the man made ones. I think the reason that millions of people flock to movies about superheroes is that we all know humanity is in dire need of them -- of entities with superhuman powers to help us get out of the mess we find ourselves in.  Our humans with supernatural powers.  Either way, we keep waiting and the silence keeps getting louder.