Reincarnation

A universe of stars above my head,

The slowly spinning earth beneath my feet

And held within my heart a thousand suns.

In every face it is the One I meet.

Though the hour and the day is hid from me

No harm fear I who having wandered far

And down the years have finally arrived

To look in the mirror of fate where who we are

Is imaged in reflective clarity.

To live for others, not for self alone

And drink the wine pressed from love's sacrifice,

To know the little distance we have gone

In one life's span, and yet how great the joy,

The music singing in the dark of night,

The song of seasons, the threnody of death

And deep remembrance signing our delight

That in this air we breathe again new life

And on this sacred soil we walk once more

In the arms of beauty and with truth our guide

To scale the heights that loomed so large before.