To Realize His Dream

I touched the earth and felt among her flowers

Their silent aspiration for the light,

With lifted head towards Creator skies

Renounced all darkness and with inner sight

Looked on life with wonder and perceived

The unity that lies behind discord,

A field divine where we enact the play

As actors in the drama of the Lord.

I saw as in a magic looking glass

The sorrow and the pain upon man's face

And caught the joy that lingers just behind

The appearance of his errant, stumbling pace.

I saw the thread that joins disparate lives

Felt every stranger as a part of me

And every act within this cosmic scene

A fragment of a greater unity,

Perceived the mind a useful instrument

But knew the heart the seat of living flame,

The body a receptacle of God,

This world a chessboard of His splendid game.

And then a further understanding dawned

That we, asleep, are but a part of Him,

Divine yet fragile, wearing the human mask

Will one day wake to realize His dream.