She remains

After John 20:1-18 

She finds the tomb empty,

the stone rolled away,

and she runs to tell

the others. They run

to the tomb and see

the cloths of linen,

wrappings of the body,

but the body gone.

They leave, but

she remains.

 

She remains, weeping,

until she sees the figures

in white, sitting

in the tomb. She speaks,

they respond. And she 

turns to see a man, 

perhaps the gardener;

she sees them, and then

she sees him.

 

Her first words after:

“I have seen Him,

I have seen the Lord.”

Because she remained.

 

Photograph by Kiwi Thompson via Unsplash. Used with permission.