Seeking

March 23, 2012

We seek for safety nets yet search in vain

For certainty in an uncertain world,

From sorrow's grip released return again

To aching memories of grief's recalled.

Yet something there is in us that strives to find

Meaning in the emptiness of days,

Escape from television's hypnotic eye

And puerile ads that batter beleaguered mind

Promising fulfilment of desire,

Or music that invites the vital rise

And overwhelms the spirit with its claims.

Satiety would prod us for still more

And yearns for danger and the passing thrill.

We are as islands in unchartered seas

Oases in the desert of the mind,

Eyes of vision in a blinded world.

A voice within whispers through our nights

Urging us to leap beyond our fears,

Beyond our satisfactions and vain needs,

For the wakened soul awaiting our response

Calmly abides patient from birth to birth

Knowing the destined change is now at hand

Prompting us to exit darkness' lair

And unify the spirit with its source.