To answer thus, I have remembered it all my life.
To say the words by which they will know me again and again
when we meet in this darkness.
To utter my name, to tell them I have
eaten the same food they have eaten,
that I have suffered the same pain,
that I have been split and cracked
and have risen and gathered my flesh around me again.
To tell them I have undertaken this journey from the beginning
and have not ceased to walk in this way.
That my mouth is whole, my hands are raised,
that I come praising the light.
That their eyes look back at me in the moment
I pronounce these words.
That I thus draw them out of the darkness
and enter into their company.