When Visited By Love

When we no longer carry ego's shield

Or halberd of our insignificant thought

And see in others enemies to yield

On bloodstained fields in senseless battles fought,

When we no longer need the taste of tears

And open to the wonder of it all,

God from our shadowed background reappears

Responding to the spirit's urgent call.

Then shall we truly wake and realize

The One who in each living creature dwells,

Who looks on us with calm compassionate eyes

As light divine invades our human cells.

The lotus from the mire blooms above,

So too our lives when visited by love.