# Oh Zealots So Red
"Let there be light," He said, and there was light,1
But you enticed me and I went astray2
Only once, this dark, this moonless night.
You snuffed my lamp; your shadow veiled my sight,
And so unseen I could not see the way
"Let there be light," He said, and there was light.
Your ribbons wrapped about me, lacing tight;3
Into the depths I sank, could barely pray
Only once, this dark, this moonless night.
God answered me expansively and bright,4
In brilliance well beyond the squint of day.
"Let there be light," He said, and there was light.
Reflecting, newly chastened and contrite,
My backward glance may briefly me betray,
Only once, this dark, this moonless night.
Though I, in twilight, penances recite,5
The image of that night does not decay:
"Let there be light," He said, and there was light
Only once, this dark, this moonless night.
# Footnotes
1: David addresses Bathsheba.
2: See II Samuel 11:1-5.
3: See Jonah 2:6-7.
4: See Psalms 118:5.
5: See Psalms 51:5.
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