Timeless Vision

Lancelot and Guinevere again

My heart deceived, my soul from me did tear,

Yet I shall travel with them through my pain

Though each accorded me a world's despair.

It is not love that separates, denies

But desire's flame that burns and flares and sears,

And lust that looms in hungry lust-filled eyes

That can reduce the joy of life to tears.

I ride with him once more as eons pass,

My steadfast friend and brother on the field

Who shields my back as the fierce legions mass,

The light we carry hoping we might yield,

The day to darkness and the age to death.

O valiant ones, brave knights of the round

Our world is gone, take now a deeper breath

For I in a new body lately found

The Grail lost many births and deaths ago

Near an ancient city by the sea.

Arising from red clay I saw aglow

A golden dome, the house of deity.

Come ye knights and join me on God's field

Hold high the banners of descending light

No more to darkness shall the spirit yield,

No more around our souls the cloak of night.