Rhoda's discovery

After Acts 12:1-19

I am of no account or station,

a servant to answer doors,

to bring water or wine,

to place food on tables

I hear the knock, and look

to see who calls at this hour

of the night, the others

in prayer for Peter, in chains

I hear the knock, and see

the answer to prayer, and run

to tell the others he is there,

standing at the door, and is it

him or his ghost, his shade

they scoff

But it is him, without chains,

without jailers, standing as

a vision, an answer from God,

an answer to prayer we cannot

believe, an answer to the knocks

on the door of heaven

and I see him, hear him,

astonished, reprimanded,

then justified, 

then saved.

Illustration: Peter Returns, woodcut by Johann Christoph Weigel, 1695.