All Gratitude to Thee

Nov. 28, 2006

All gratitude to Thee who having come

A light into the chamber of my soul,

Awakened one who slept unconsciously

Dreaming blissfully of worthless things,

Desire and the fruits of earthly life;

One who descended from the heavenly realms

Entered an earthly body and forgot.

Through years of slow awakening thy hand

Upheld, protecting arms enfolded me,

To the spirit's aspiration gave consent

Kept safe the troubled child that from thee strayed

And nourished the spark grown now into a flame.