Season For God

We, too, fall 
into the cracks of the earth 
as if to be swallowed 
and forgotten 
in an endless abyss. 

But you, God, 
raise us up out of the depths 
to transform us into something 
to be loved. 

Before your day of reckoning, 
when we meet you in the air, 
you change us. 


We die in the water 
like returning 
to our mother’s womb, 
to be born of your spirit. 

Full of the newness of life, 
we are born into a war. 

We were always in a battle, 
unknowing. 

But now it matters more 
because we know 
what there is to lose. 


The promise of being with you 
forever is worth the fight. 

There is strength 
knowing that you won the war. 

But oh, the traps 
of the final battles. 

How we fall, again 
and again into darkness. 


It seems there is substance there, 
in the land of shadow and stone, 
where there is no light. 

It changes us every time 
we descend. 


Perhaps this is why 
you made the night, 
at least for a time… 

So we know the difference 
between you and evil:
between God, 
and everything else; 

So we can practice 
letting go to sleep, 
in the hopes that we will learn 
to let go, awake. 

© Season Naify, 2025