A Greater Being's Plan

What have we learned when death arrives at last

To claim the body from the deathless soul,

An uncertain recollection of the past

A present peering towards an unknown goal,

An unknown future for which we are unprepared.

Truly the race is never to the swift

But to those who through enveloping darkness stared

Unflinching; for them the light, the priceless gift

Who found the spirit in desert wilderness,

Atop the hill, across forbidding plains

Or in the silent heart of selflessness

Forgoing accumulation of temporal gains

That seem to dominate the life of man,

Accepting of a greater being's plan.