Beyond Death's Reach

Eternally before Thy feet I bow

Knowing nought yet knowing thou art he

Who in our chasmed darknesses below

Bears the torches of infinity

To light the stairs of our laborious climb

From ignorance and death to worlds above,

Within, beyond the iron vaults of time

To the undying consciousness of love.

Here on earth the nations vie in hate,

The killing age continues among men,

Desire, rage and lust still dominate,

Our skyward efforts fall to earth again

And though the being tries, attempts anew

To scale the limitations of the mind

Too weak our aspiration, far too few

The souls who rise above themselves and find

Release approaching vision of the new.

But there are those who feel this globe as home

Of spirit's exploration in the blue

Experiment of God, who overcome

Inertia or reluctance to ascend

Above the limits of our DNA

And all our dwarf-self mastery rescind

To rise into a bright diviner day,

On the altar of soul's offering shall raze

To crumbled ash the edifice of greed,

Mind and body joined to spirit-ways,

Beyond death's reach plant life's immortal seed.