Difficulties on the Way

June 21, 2000

Now the day is done, we've turned once more

Towards night's caress and sin's hegemony

To fill the hungry vital's ego-store,

A fall from Grace and inner sanctity.

Shall all our eves then yield to darkness' dreams

Where sirens of sadness whisper tenderly

To enter the valley of tears and bathe in streams

Of pity forgetting the call of higher spheres?

Whether to sink in sorrow and remorse

Acknowledging defeat to nether gods

Or set once more the being's upward course

Aware that at our side the Tempter walks.

As light descends the atavisms rise,

Vestigial remnants buried in our bones

And only by the Force can their demise

Be swift and God invest our human clay.

Though fraught with danger is the upward way

From every fall we can but higher rise

For slowly truth emerges as the day

And illusion's veil is lifted from our eyes.