Let them see ME

[Ebony T. Johnson]

I was locked in a closet with bread and water in the dark.
No man knew me, but Someone saw me.
I did not even see myself.

I felt all around me.
My hands were my eyes. And I searched.
I searched out till I found my bread...till I found my water.

So dark...so completely dark…so I ate and I drank.
Every time I consumed more bread
Every time I drank from the hand that saw in the dark I would hear a sound.

It was The Door.
Was Someone at the door?
Hello...No. There was nothing-I thought.

I saw no one there in the dark.
I was locked in a room with bread and water in the dark.
No man saw me, but Someone knew me,
Still I did not know myself.

I reached around me-my hands were my eyes and took bread.
This bread filled me…
This bread comforted me...
And the water, I poured over my hands and my feet.

No, the water never ran out...hmm. It was always there.
I drank this water in the dark and yes it filled me.
Someone saw me...Someone knew me.
I was beginning to see things about myself.

Every time I took of the bread and drank of the cup
I could hear the Door in the distance. Hello?
Is someone there...
I know Someone is there.

My hands that I had for eyes could not see the light cutting through the dark, but I could see the beginning of my hands and I could hear steps in my direction.
Slowly my eyes adjusted and as the Light entered the room…A wind rushed over me and I felt... I felt...Someone. ..something present.

Slowly…yes…slowly my eyes adjusted and as the Light entered the room
my soul says… yes and my eyes beheld Him and my heart besought as thirst in desert places and words filled my mind and said,

"You are here for purpose and have been prepared. It is time for you to leave this place. In this place you were made, here in the dark away from what men say you should be."

Suddenly a hand took my hands that were once eyes
and led me out through the Door,
out of the dark and into this Majestic and Marvelous light
with crumbs on the floor and the sound of rushing water.

My head was bowed low with my hand in His in the presence of many
and my praise for an audience of One.
I heard Him speak, and it sounded like the wind.
"When they see you, let the see Me.”

Leave bread and water.
Let them see Me...leave behind bread and water
Let them see Me.
Shine, you who are now a child of light, and lead them to the Greater
Light.
Yes, when they see you, let them see Me."
I know Him and now I know myself.


Ebony Johnson