The Man of Sorrows

Darkness is not the absence of light

That would be too simple

Is more uncontrollable and sinister

Not a place but the void

I was there once

More than once

And although I could not see or hear

You were there

Waiting

Because the darkness is not dark to you

At least not always

You wept

Not because your friend was dead

But because soon you would be

And because we couldn't understand it

Or didn't want to

Or both

The coming darkness was too deep for us to grasp

But then so is the light

One had to come before the other

It was always that way with you

It still is

Tears fell from your eyes and then ours

Before every light in the world went out

and time itself wanted to die with you

I go back to that place sometimes

Or rather it comes back to me uninvited

The night was eternal

Until it wasn't

Bitter and unsweet

Somehow the bitter remained in the sweet and has never gone away

You told us it will be like that

Not with your words but how you lived

The Man of Sorrows acquainted with grief

That grief wasn't what we wanted to see

So we tried to look away and in so doing fulfilled your very essence

One from whom people hide their faces

But soon we couldn't hide from it anymore

Than we could stop the Sun from setting 

Or rising

I remember you wishing there could be another way

And looking back I do too

I still don't know why it has to be this way

The bitter often mingled with the sweet

Maybe I never will

At least not this side of...

~ Mary Magdalene's monologue

written by Tyler Thompson for The Chosen series (season 4-episode 7)