He stared with numbness

into dark and frigid water

crying from the depths

for loss of two daughters.

**

At that crystalline

point in time,

saw hope displayed

in the waves;

**

perhaps the moon's

apogee and perigee

helped him to see,

reflecting on the

surface of the deep;

**

what light of life shines near,

will also briefly move away;

and that which is laid to rest,

must therefore awaken someday.

_____________

* Horatio Spafford lost two daughters as the result of a shipwreck in the Atlantic. Later he stood on the deck of a ship near the location where his daughters were lost and began writing the words that ultimately became the great hymn of hope and peace known as "It Is Well With My Soul"