Reveal the Child-God

There comes a moment in the finding of soul

When all that has been glorious is dashed,

The years ofinnerness, the years of search

Ended as we face the dark within

And see the smallness of our human state.

Face to face with our ignominy,

All the sordidness of mortal being

Rises mightily before our eyes.

We cannot believe such pettiness resides

In us who seek the high beatitudes,

House the suppurating wounds of life,

Debasement and the dark proclivity.

The human soul aspiring to the God

Must meet the evil on the roads of time

Knowing that hell is the accelerant,

The rapid path towards the one Divine,

And yet such horror seen that is but ours.

Can we divorce from our mortality,

And solitary rise to those seer heights,

The need of anger, greed, lust and sin

Or must we suffer too the endless flame

Till man is purified of all desire

Or finding insufficient life's rewards

Confront the evil barking at our door,

Face the endless Void with inborn light

Tear the mask from all things undivine,

Reveal the child-God lurking in the heart,

The hidden truth that waits its hour to rule.