Who Shall Resist

A vision leapt, then danced before my feet

As I drifted down the avenues of dream.

I moved in trance-like unreality

Unable still to pierce the subtle veil

That hangs between the self I do not know

And the stranger that I face in waking hours.

Sleep does not help, there too I am unaware,

The body seems of foreign substance made.

I ask for greater patience, deeper calm,

Listen for a remembered voice to call,

A newer music waiting to descend,

But only hear the sound of old refrains.

I wait the one true guide my truth to know,

That body wrest itself from thought-control,

Rebuild in strength to front the coming years.

Though all appears as shifting shades of grey

I know the psychic being is my life

And in the temporal space in which I move

Prepares to open the doors of destiny.

Acknowledging the grace that fills my days,

Unable yet to see the dawning light,

Nor worthy even of a partial view,

The miraculous obsession does not wane.

Its might environs me, a protecting shield

Against the press of forces undivine

And leads my half-blind spirit on the path

Hewn and cleared of millennial obstacles

That would impede the march towards the sun.

Not this alone but guardians are there;

I sense their strength beside me as I walk

Towards the sunlit lanes that beckon near;

Immortal souls surround me in my quest

Encouraging and welcoming and vast.

By their proximity alone is guidance clear

Assuredly I move from out the dark.

This outer sheath wears thin but still survives

Its moments as the slave of ego-will

But body acquiesces to a touch

From heights above and hidden depths within,

The 'I' reduces to a vanishing dot

When from the heart the aspiration flames.

O to shed this carapace of time

This wall of self and barrier of dark

Resisting fruitlessly the light's advance.

For only brief delay is certain now,

Inevitable the coming of the dawn

Its jewelled splendour breaking on our sight.

The earth seems supercharged with rays of gold,

Her flowers speak of an undying joy

And Nature to my astonished eyes unveils

Flowers unseen and fragrances unknown.

Patiently I wait the inner change

Trusting to the One who led me here

From birth to birth among the distant stars.

I recall the voice that woke me from my sleep

To join the great adventure of the soul.

No day shall pass without the thought of Her

Suffusing mind and heart with Her delight

And promise of a heavenly dynasty

Planted in the very core of earth.

Mid dark-skinned faces strange but comforting

Far from the landscaped paradise of home.

The pungent scents, the incense-laden stalls,

The unintelligible tongues that are my own;

My residence is neither here nor there

But in some inner world transcending time

Where all my being bows before Her feet.

Who shall resist the arrow of the Lord

Or who his touch that lights the torch of soul,

His diamond gaze and sweet compassion's flame

That burns away the darkness in our depths.