Within Us Still Unknown

Time will not return to me

Those eyes so diamond-bright,

But ever I hold in memory

Her legacy of light.

The Wheel will not roll back again

To joys of yesterday

Nor visit me with former pain

Upon the upward way.

Though I have wept for beauty fled

Life was passing sweet

And sadness brief when I was led

To bow before Her feet.

Endless seems the journey now

And we have borne the cost

Of ignorance, refused to grow

What treasure we have lost.!

Not seeing Her we climb alone

The long and winding stair,

She waits within us still unknown

As we walk unaware.