Lazarus

Lazarus

Lazarus?
Lazarus!
What happened to you?
Are you dead in a grave?
or alive, hidden – How?

Did you live after all?
Just five year or twenty?
a thousand
How Many?

Were you the Beloved?
not John as now told.
Or perhaps was another,
lost, hid in the cold

What happened to all of you
lost in the haze
of daffodils, hatreds
and long-hidden days.


begun March 16, 1990, revised March 9, 1998, revised November 12, 1999
Roger Victoria