Rise Up

Exhausted, the nurse takes off her mask,

decides, "This is hell." Head on the table,

for no apparent reason, she remembers a

speech she memorized in catechism class.

Jesus goes to hell, pulls Adam free saying

"I am your God. Out of love for you I order

you, O sleeper, to awake.

I did not create you to be held a prisoner.

Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead.

Rise up, work of my hands, you who were created

in my image. Let us leave this place.

For you are in me and I am in you;

we cannot be separated."

She lifts her head. Checks her watch, stands.

Puts on her mask.

O, to enter that bright portal!

- The Psalter

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