Sonnet to a Friend and Brother

Have I through unconscious act or oversight

Offended thee for whom I hold such love,

A friend and brother joined in the sanctioned fight

To cleave the darkness and find the light above.

If I could soar the winds and meet thee fair

Upon the lanes you tread to your beckoning goal

My spirit would bear in that charged and sanctified air

The warm embrace of soul to brother soul.

But still the human distance hinders me

And human cares not trusting full the light

That joins our paths upon eternity

And frees us from the python coils of night.

In silent prayer and gratitude I wait

The mystic moment by the ashram gate.