"Glass" parts 1&2

I stand

Pressed up against glass

Gazing out and upwards into darkness

Towards Golgotha.

Midafternoon,, yet only darkness swirls before me

Screams of agony tear my ears

Demonic laughter rumbles

Despair-thickened darkness

A different shout rings forth

IT IS FINISHED!

All else is silenced

Darkness shreds

Living Light overpowers

Raising the very dead

The Glory of God, golden light

Drives me to my knees

Sheltered behind the glass.

Pure light illuminates all

Over me it pours red

Stained by the glass

As I behold the glory of God

Which no eye can fully bear

Mercifully revealed as I stare

Through the blood of the Son.

Part 2

The power of the light

Transforms all it touches

Moves me

Lifts me to stand

My wonder increases

As the glass becomes clearer, brighter

Shot through with streaks of purple and gold

I gaze about, lost in wonder

Amazed at the Love and Power

Pouring into me, over me

Through the glass

More I take in

Sweeter it grows

Lily-whiteness all, at last

Yet one blemish remains

My shadow.

Those behind me

See only glimmers

Of Light pouring into me

I look at them, first with pity

Then Love, and Humility

Transform shadow.

And those behind begin to point

As the blood-red hue

Reaches them too

They think I have changed

Been utterly turned into fire

But I smile, because I know

That at last

I have been utterly changed

Into glass.