Dream in a time of darkness

I am in a great black supermarket, a supermarket city – it is night, and there are no lights. Everything is confusion around me – no one knows where anything is, and people can only find with difficulty the goods they are looking for…

But all around me I am surprised and touched to hear people singing – separate voices, men’s voices singing alone in the dark – songs of joy, like hymns …

As we leave, we turn back and see the city on a hill – and beside it two trees gleaming with lights are stand side by side under the luminous arc of the night sky…