I Have Felt Desire

I have felt desire slough from me

Like a mangy cur retreating sullenly

To slip into its dank and darkened den

With lips asneer at the arrogance of men

Who think to break the welded chains of fate,

Unaware that evil's force can wait

And enter with a horrifying roar

At the slightest jar of the unprotected door.

I know eternal vigilance must win

The guardianship of soul ere I begin

To feel the psychic being in command

And make the leap the veiled creator planned

When first the soul took birth in measured time

Disdaining endless bliss the heights to climb

Through plant and beast to effloresce in man

And then by Grace exceed the mortals' span.

But now we must discern with patient eye

The vagaries of entities that ply

Their ageless craft obstructing harmony

And shake the ground reserved for deity.

The force of god invades the fields of death

And we aware of a some diviner breath

Must now to the task Herculean set our fate,

To cleanse the house and open wide the gate.