In Our Profoundest Sleep

6/27/02

He sits awake in our profoundest sleep,

Guardian and guide of all our dreams,

Spurs lethargic self to dare and leap

Across the gulfs of ignorance where gleams

Eternal verity, transforming power,

A love divine, immutable, unstained,

Whose formidable force can seize the hour

And all that lies within us unattained

Make blossom forth as flowers to the sun.

A newer man shall overleap mankind,

A vessel of the multitudinous One,

And we who in a half-light seek shall find

The harmony that now eludes our grasp,

The light that beckons just beyond our view,

The love we feel in all yet cannot clasp

And joy the province of the realized few.