To The Silent Teachers of My Soul

Dec. 15, 1999

I have lived among giants largely unaware

Of their awesome spirit's strength and amplitude,

All-powerful they veiled their force with care

Presenting to the world their calm humility.

Yet in the night when mind was safely sleeping

They came to teach the lessons of the Law

Of Being and by slow degrees their crude

Disciple the wild and vital angst forbore

And opened to his spirit's altitude.

Patient with the calm of a higher kind

When shadowy doubt with his flickering lantern-light

Crossed the busy avenues of mind

Arresting the progress of the Being's upward flight

Entrusted by the lord this spirit's keeping

They counseled with love and untold dignity .

With yogic might and compassionate human air

Guided the erring ways to desuetude

That Mother's Force this waking soul might bear.