What is our Need?

What is beyond our need for love,

Beyond our dreams of distant peace,

Desire and the want to own

Beloved things our taste to please?

What is our need when death swoops down

Upon the cherished and the fair

All we have built was built on sand

Our palaces of empty air.

In moments when the soul breaks free

From the ego-mind's oppressive reign

The child within us sings and plays

His silver songs of joy's refrain,

We love once more though it be brief

As the colours of an autumn leaf

Or song that sweeps across the skies

From far supernal melodies.