Beyond the Bars of Time

At times I think of mountains I have climbed

High above the seas of ignorance

And in the distance saw God's topless peaks

Then realize as waking from a trance

I have ascended but a modesthill

In a long and fateful journey towards the stars,

A hill that any healthy child could climb,

And I though marked with many battle scars

In a field of life from fiercely fought campaigns

Have not achieved the first essential aim,

A mind of calm that bears the blows of fate

A vital that the soul has yet to tame,

A body unawakened to its role

A heart whose rapture now is laced with pain,

The glorious surrender not begun,

The destiny my being must attain.

And now I have descended once again

To level earth, like Sisyphus must climb

The endless mountain, journey without end

And find my truth beyond the bars of time.