Let Us Wait In Silence

No longer to regret the loss of youth

Nor loved ones now whose lips are sealed with dust

Or age that stealthily upon us steals

A body that we can no longer trust.

O, no, I shall not grieve for love that died,

The loss of friends forgotten as the years,

Or passions once so frequently recalled

In adolescent dreams; I shed no tears

For anger or impatience or desire

That slowly disappear as mind is stilled

And ego dampened if not yet subdued

Or memories which yet my heart is filled.

The road before us stretches endlessly

The spirit's call allows no time to mourn

And of what use are all our useless tears

To the torments of the world the One has borne?

O let us wait in silence as the night

While falsehood reigns and all the world forlorn,

Outlast the darkness, trusting in our souls

And know by faith there follows soon the dawn.