GATEKEEPERS (Father Manny)

GATEKEEPS OF THE LIGHTHOUSES
(c)2002 Stephanie Durand

Calling all Gatekeepers,
The Lighthouse is open
The beams of light have flooded the waters
Come, climb up and take a look around
For the waves are about to come ashore.
Stand gaurd in your lighthouse.
Hold your lights high and shine them across the nations
The beams of light have flooded the land
The sand below is still and damp
Stay atop the lighthouse and wait
The lighthouse is your guide through the dark nights
The lights, can you see them
Shining from nation to nation
From sea to sea
The lights are shining
The lights are infiltrating the earth, beaming through to the floors
of the ocean, through the core of the earth,
Stay in the lighthouse,
Continue to beam across the sea from nation to nation to nation to nation
Hold them high and keep them lit
Day after day after day after day
Night, day, night, day, keep the lights on
The Lord's hand is infiltrating through the light
Lifting the nations up
Higher, he says,
Lift the lights higher for the whole world to see
Higher, he says
Let each nation see even if it is only a ray
Infliltrating their shore, the beams of light
have energy that can move mountains,
Energy that can overcome all, the energy of the world
Is in the light,
The light of the Lord
Will infliltrate the world
Hold them high for our Lord,
And stay atop the Lighthouse,
Do not waver them, shine them,
Glory be to the heavens here on earth,
For the stars on land
That shine for the world to see.
Rejoice, rejoice, the stars of the lighthouse
Are energy and will never go out.
November 13, 2002
one of first poems after Father Many

2013 - editing - Bible verse I opened to:
Isaiah 58:8-10
"Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.  Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here I am.  If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday."