Everything Becomes A Door

We know we have been raised from the dead

when everything becomes a door--

every brick wall,

every dead end,

every Judas fiiend,

everything we see and smell and taste.

everything we think and feel and are,

every mountain top and valley bottom,

very birth and every death,

every joy and every pain,

every ecstasy and infidelity--

when every single thing

becomes a door

that opens to eternity

and we pass through

as we could never do

before.

And then we wonder why

we've spent so many years

just stopping at these doors;

why we've always pulled up short,

and turned around,

and walked away,

instead of passing through.