O Luminous One

O luminous One I bow before Thy feet

And all my yearning soul to Thee consign,

I wander now in deep tranquillity

Among the flower-paths and would be Thine,

Yet all the outer shell remains oblique

And still I fall into the ingrained ways

Where self-control is lost and ego rides

Upon my back and anger rears and neighs,

But briefly now these moments of regress,

For deep within my heart a Presence dwells

And in our mortal soil a truth-light grows.

Descending now a heavenly music swells,

A sudden joy our sorrow overtakes

And to Thy touch the sleeping soul awakes.