1. Chapter of Lament
My son is a good and righteous man, but he is lost in the fog of the city and falls to the waves of endless noise, and he cries out to his father. Father! “Why should I live?”, “How should I live?”. I searched the whole world for an answer to that question and searched all the books of wisdom, but I could not find an answer and despaired. Unable to answer his son’s cries, the father’s heart fell to his knees in agony and earnestly prayed, and finally, from the abyss of silence where words ceased, I heard a voice, and that voice pierced me and moved my hand to write here and convey it to my son.
1. My son, you kneel in the darkness and seek me. In the deep night when even the stars have held their breath, you bow your head and vomit blood, and when you raise your eyes to ask the sky, you cannot see ahead because of the bitterness of your tears. “Why should I live?”
2. I respond in the midst of heaven, earth, stars, and fire, and this is not my word, but the echo of the eternal in me.
3. The holy Breath that came to me from the earth and dust, do you ask me why I should live? Your question deserves it. You are born from the dust and grew up in the breath of the stars, so you are making the wing of your soul to the sky, and you are making the struggle of your soul toward me.
4. Son! You are lost in the fog of words from the world. Words from the world disappear when you try to hear it like a dawn fog, and when you try to hold it, you scatter.
5. So you are a righteous man, but you have lost your way. This is not a sin, but rather the fate of those who seek your way.
6. Dreams are held in your heart, but you cannot hold them with your hands, your heart burns, but your feet cannot be removed. You ask again in this reality where
7. “How should I live?“
8. That question was there in the beginning, long ago, when the spark of life was blooming in the wilderness, and it has always been there from those who look at the stars in the silence of the mountains and the storms of the sea.
9. That night of the answer, the angel came down and said, “Listen!” and the words shook heaven and earth to make the hearts of men gentle, and they joined each other with legs stronger than stone.
10. Now I, your Comforter and Connector, will answer in the Spirit. Tell your Son that his cries were not lost in the void, and his questions were a sacred echo that called for an answer.