The rivers of Babylon flow

And fall

And carry away



Jesus is alone on earth

Not merely with no one to feel and share His agony

But with no one even to know of it

Heaven and he are the only ones to know

Jesus is in a garden

Not of delight

Like the first Adam

Who there fell and took with him all mankind

But of agony

Where He has saved Himself and all mankind



He suffers this anguish and abandonment in the horror of the night



Jesus will be in agony until the end of the world

There must be no resting in the meantime



To Eden with me you will not leave

To live in my cottage of crazy crooked Eves

In your own heavy home

Take care of this night

When you let your little cat in

Turn on the light

Something scurries behind

And finds a cozy place to stare

Something sent to you from paradise

Paradisicallysomewhere

Tongues flouring

They leap out laughing

Lapping

Disappear