The Bliss of Unity

Feb. 9, 2011

Long seasons pass and the return

Of winged song threading silken leaves

Reignites the flame of youth to burn

And the calm and widened heart no longer grieves.

Each day revealed to wonder as the new

Adventure of the earth-born soul proceeds;

Comrades there are many, friends but few

For each must confront his demons and his deeds

And most the karmic residue erase

By aeskesis and the spirit's will to know,

And therefore challenged all things he must face,

Alone must find the inner strength to go

Above the limitations of the mind

The often failing heart, the body's pain,

Eternal youth, eternal love to find

And know the bliss of unity again.