acts 17:28

I am Lazarus, revenant

the LORD calls me back: 

things are never the same again

our Jesus, who gave me second life

himself dies shortly after,

lives again, and is taken up,

our parents long gone,

and then my sisters

all our fellows

crucified, stoned,

exiled, fallen to lions,

starved, and I live restless

given even this good time

which I did not ask for,

I would be happy 

to go home

having walked the new earth,

and returned, perforce, to the old,

I soon shall taste death again. 

and this time, at last

in him I will live forever, 

move,

and have my being