Strangers of the Light

In grace we arrived
at the same time and space
each as lost as the other
here to be found by each other
in witness to the presence
deeply missing from the spirit of the loss.

We were strangers and
shepherds of the other
in the dark of a night
in the middle of a fall
in the absence of a guiding light
or a gainful calm or any clarity
through the through-ness of it all.

Then, and with the suddenness of a call
we found ourselves, once again, quietly,
and silently stumbling
into the light.