Blinded by the light

After Acts 9:9-19

Blinded by the light,

he is brought to a house

in the street called Straight,

perhaps because the others

were all crooked or curved. 

He sits and waits, three days,

eating nothing, drinking nothing,

a severe fast of three days,

three days of death and darkness.

He has a vision, a single vision,

of a man called Ananias come

to him and lay hands on him

to end the darkness. 

On the third day, a man

named Ananias comes to him.

A man named Ananias calls him

brother, the first to call him that,

implying he is changed and reborn.

The man lays his hands upon him, 

telling him he is sent by the voice

heard on the road to heal the blindness

of his eyes and the blindness 

of his heart. 

The scales fall away,

the blindness is dispelled,

the baptism is performed.

And so ended the third day.

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