The Prayer of Tears

With Rachel refusing comfort from beyond the grave,
with all those who weep ahead for a world they do not yet see ...

With those who sat and wept by the rivers of Babylon
and all those who spend their days as exiles and strangers in the land ...

With barren women waiting to be remembered
and tortured kings mourning losses through the night ...

With the kneeling Christ alone in the garden
and the hopeless disciples after his death ...

I bring my tears as a prayer for all that is in me saying:
we were not made for this,
for all that protests against the seemingly endless night ...

And before there is hope of resurrection or even light,
there is only this:
a flood of tears, an empty sky, and a willingness to remember.