To One Whose Sorrow Cannot Ebb

You have not felt the burden of lonely years

Or known in cold nights memory that sears

And chills the blood, invades the heart and mind

Brings to searching blinded eyes the tears

Of relentless sorrow solace cannot bind.

You have not seen the servant depart in peace

Or watched the cancer of the world increase.

The tears you shed are of the ego-kind

And nether forces that use as they please

Until we grow and higher nature find.

There are those descended here who brought the light

And placed it in the bowels of the night,

And though the clouds of doubt obscure their sun

And death retains awhile his painful rite,

Know in your soul God's victory is won.