Lazarus time

After John 11

We wait for the healing

from this sickness;

the healing does not come.

Sickness, terminal, but

it can be healed,

we know. We do not

know why the healing

waits, why it does not come.

It is cruel, seems cruel,

is cruel,

this waiting, this cruelty

we impose on ourselves.

Illustration: Early Christian depiction of the raising of Lazarus.