For I Am Man

I have been lulled by the rocking of the sea

And felt earth's beating heart beneath my feet,

Dreamed of love in cloud-filled summer skies

And welcomed winter's chill at fall's retreat.

For I am man emerging from the child

With childlike wonder ever guiding me,

I seek to hold and longing would possess

This earthly life and immortality.

Yet am I error-filled, my life at odds

With the light that ever entrance seeks

At the closed and iron gate, the shuttered door,

And rarely do I hear the voice that speaks

Of higher aims exhorting all my soul

To break the hold of body-mind and free

The spirit pent and ever so rudely chained

To ego's bars, desire's propensity.

Yet slowly the Master sculpting obsidian self

Chisels and shapes from a deep and ageless plan

Revealing by His slow miraculous strokes

From adamant stone the godlike superman.