Divine Infinities

Though I have found in darkest night

A harbinger of inner sight,

In the compass of this steely world

A golden banner late unfurled,

I have not joined within this breast

The thrust of energy with rest.

I see each day the human plight,

In darkness long for greater light,

To balance the scale of joy and grief

And know eternity though brief

This life of days through births and deaths

Inhaled in deep or shallow breaths,

Irreparable loss with gain

Of spirit-stature by our pain

Illumination through our prayer

Or offered selves to heaven's care,

To recognize the god within

Annulling sorrow, absent sin,

To rise from ego as it dies,

Behold divine infinities.