Upon the Threshold

I hold Thee close, a vision to attain

Despite the daily perfidies of mind,

Desire's play, body's intransigence

And habit's tendrils tight around me twined.

I know Thee for a Presence and a Grace

And slowly to Thy thrilling touch awake,

My life a prayer grown ever more intense

My soul aware within Thy gifts partake.

Purify this being Thou hast held

Through lives unknown and journeys without end

And births unnumbered countless as the stars

All my consciousness on Thee attend.

We stand upon the threshold of a world

Whose light of truth shall mitigate the pain

Of otherness with which we've clothed our kind,

And wait the hour of Thy Truth-Light's reign.