In Her Is My Eternity

As a youth life seemed to me

An underlying unity.

I walked through wastelands of despair

And saw my spirit dwelling there.

No wealth had I yet wealth was mine,

In every tree a force divine

Flowed in beauty as a stream,

Reality as true as dream.

The flowers in my childhood hand

Treasures soul could understand

Whom Nature fostered as a friend,

And in the days at childhood's end

Brought new vistas to explore,

Opening the azure door

To worlds beyond and worlds within

Realms of beauty, haunts of sin.

The sense-life's wild and frenzied dance

In vital-nature's ambiance

Attracted as a moth to flame

My burning passion to its game.

Always the god would intervene

Protecting me from the unseen,

Guiding slowly by his light

The siren temptations of the night

And the forbidden fields of day,

The errant self upon the way,

Until the moment we would meet

And I surrender at Her feet,

The first surrender, incomplete,

An aspiration fire-sweet

Burning through the earthly veil,

A promise that She would not fail

To guide, protect and nourish me;

In Her is my eternity.