Last

It is the last day of a time

  drawn in measurement

Kept in scripture

  bracketed side by side

Baptism and a voice

  transformation and a voice

Claiming Jesus as beloved,

  well pleased, mine 

The voice claims us all

  draws us into the cloud

A veil of unknown and known

  a time to listen deeply

Shutting out the world

  til it breaks in demanding need

The last day and the beginning

  of another, each revealing

It's own secrets of time

  God, reality, our want

Binding us on the altar

  of watching, waiting

Doing the everyday work

  of firsts and lasts with God's help