David's Valentine

Didn't Lazarus go through the last
Mystery of Eleusis too young
To die but he crossed over
Long enough to experience
A conscious continuity
And then came back
To tell us not to be afraid
Of something we've been doing all along
But it's one thing to raise someone
Else from the dead and another
To raise oneself from life to life
To become ash in the earth
And take on its whole glory
In a pool of light in the yard