Harvest and Outside Harvesting
1 Kings 8: “Then spake Solomon: “The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.” First Samuel 22: “He made darkness pavilions round about Him, dark waters.” Psalm 18:11: “He made darkness his secret place.”
The harvesting of darkness is the chore
Of mortals. God is not required to glean
The fields of black. He brings it from the shore
Of seas so vast that galaxies unseen
By human eyes are lost beyond the stars
Our telescopes record. His realm’s beyond
The countless constellations with their scars
Of darkness in between. His lights were spawned
By him, and we can see them, but the stark
Reality is stretched beyond the rim
Of heaven’s bodies. There beyond that arc
Is blackness unrelenting holding him.
..Unmeasured is its magnitude. Its blight
….Cannot be physicked even by his light.