The Dancers

The music came and on the ear of night

Merged and swelled as from a harp of bliss,

Its harmonies descending in delight,

Its melodies like the beloved's kiss.

These finite bodies singing circled round

The lantern representative of soul

Chanting as one who inner peace has found,

In silence hears the distant oceans roll

And in his depths repeats the sacred Om.

In that moment when the hours disappeared

One saw the dancers moving through the room,

In perfect synchronicity they neared

As suddenly there rose from the heart's core

A hymn of gratitude, a song of light,

Eternal chords unlocked an inner door

To beauty and the eyes to mystic sight.

Deep we went, so deep the heights to scale

And call the new world down in earth's travail.