COMFORTED AND FULFILLED

Another piece from Drum Major for a Dream. Interesting how the piece works, with a few changes in words, works for just about any martyred prophet from the last two thousand years or so.

A silence now stands

Where hope once spoke.

The voice in the wilderness

of inhumanity crying

against the indifference

of the righteous.

Silenced?

            So then is justice,

            So then is hope.

            So then is faith.

            Decency.

            Dignity.

            And a dream.

Where one dies thousands rise

For Martyrs are made to

            multiply.

            The stars catch the sound

            The wind carries the word

            The earth contains the eternal law

            Struggling to be born in

                        Man.

In the silence

Where he once stood

The children grow

The poor gather

And those now mourning know

They shall be comforted

- Comforted – and fulfilled.

N. Ellsworth Bunce in Drum Major for a Dream.