All Darkness Dissipate 

September 22, 2004

Elusive sleep why come you not tonight

When all the dark enfolds me as I wait

And a thousand thoughts within my brain alight,

Unwelcome visitors through the open gate

Who press for recognition as I lie

Confounded by the world that we have wrought,

Our hatreds cowled in twisted piety,

The endless wars summing up to nought.

When shall the radiant soul of man appear,

Its light dissolve our ignorance and hate,

A heart that draws all living creatures near,

A force of truth all darkness dissipate.