I chase the rainbow 
Seven colours
melt into light like the sun
Darkness is undone.

I see pictures in a million shades
but the canvas is bleeding
There's a rip in the sky; 
an apocalyptic sigh
like some Christ-side pierced.

The golden scroll unfolds
with the words of the Book of Life
Heaven's riders riding through:
A voice like thunder speaks
Into every naked heart.

The elements conform to a different order
Cautious feet at translations border.  
Floods, famines and disasters
Judgment for the unjust
A lightning purge, waves crashing;
Then light and joy 
in every droplet of new rain. 

Revelation - the revealing:
A mark of a different kind
In your hands and mind
The tide changing,  then the shout;
called to the inner chamber
 - no longer a stranger 
in a foreign land.
Stillness at the heart of the storm
Earth takes on its hidden heavenly form.

 - Keith Newman 3-11-91-2000