A Prayer for Light’s Dominion
A Prayer for Light’s Dominion
By Jared Kruchowski
O perfect Word before all tongues!
May it be, one radiant day, prized words strung most precisely, right and
true, will come—that do not stutter, flummox, break—and emerge,
triumphant, from beneath these fervent palms! These fractured thoughts!
A field pristine just here appears—shimmers brief. Enter lux aeterna. Enter
Eros most Divine. Enter blinding sheen! A clearing soft in Mind is near.
Enter gently now this flaxen Vale in calm.
Hope stirs, grows—up, down, in, through—this River, infinite, ever-same-
yet-fresh. Let all such omens good turn a tolling Tower euphonic, resonant and
smooth—a gonging Coup despite inestimable cost! May all my loss Ferment
work Rich and ever-New! Let its written End be a balm Generative to all!
Begin now ascension to this great Summit.
God, may Good language hid now be aroused. May Song long bottled-up
spill out. May lavish Crowns all my lone toil point to loud. Get in light—get in!
Come on, Love—raise this life! Wake its digits! Give it Sight! Shake its
torpor! Set whole aching vistas Alight! Come quick Love—come quick.
I ask—be this an Hour light’s Dominion shone down lucent!
Perhaps Thou might deem Now—this—just such a Time?
Perhaps so, yes.
In One alone—boundless—arise!
Go forth with Tongues of Love.
Let Joy take this pen! Begin.
Amen.
Jared Kruchowski is a writer and filmmaker/photographer. He is also: a grounded idealist, devotee of useless beauty, seeker of signals of transcendence. A firm believer in the notion of Imago Dei in all people, irrepressible existentialist, and ambivalent cinephile. A classical literature lover, awed concertgoer, ardent art advocate, and proud citizen of the world. He remains a philosopher-at-large in a long-term relationship with espresso. He runs critical/curatorial space The Art of Vision in its various forms, including: theartofvision.substack.com