Earth Renewed

Estranged from memory's cell we seek the One

Who ever in our fractured hearts we bear.

Ever we stray and ever return anew

To the ageless quest, hunting the heaven-bird

Who sits secure, unknown, serene within.

Escaping from reality awhile

Vagrant we stray down tired roads of sin

And alleys strewn with deeds of infamy.

Turning in the deep-etched grooves we've cut

As records of our haunted history,

Our bodies' lusts, our mind's infirmities,

We search for dawns beyond our faint purview.

For now is felt the rustle of great wings

Beating on this shell of fragile make

Breaking with its beak encrusted walls

That ego built confining consciousness.

Unsullied in its pure abode within,

Unmoved by shocks of birth, untouched, aloof

From passion's surge and storms of darker seas,

Death cannot stain its plumed magnificence

And Hell's dominions fade before its sight.

Pressing now the earthly envelope

Against the rigid shape our minds perceive

Its seeks in matter's force to find new forms.

In that mystic place where mortal vision ends

An inner witness peers through unsealed doors

Where good and evil walk conjoined towards God

On earth renewed, reborn to native light.