To Live for Thee

3/14/07

Retuning home I fell into the past.

It was a hard fall and bruised my soul.

To shake off sorrow and to shake off joy

And walk into the future nude and free

For some is an impossible task.

A thousand memories built brick by brick

Construct a temple to our suffering

Joined with the mortar of all past delight.

I could not move but to descend again

Into the being I was and must not be.

How long must one await the breaking walls,

The foundations of the past reduced to dust,

And from the ashes of our former selves

Let the fire-bird of the new world arise

From a heart that longs though it is blind,

Transform the body meant for One alone,

An instrument to do His will on earth.

Shake from me the shackles of former lives,

Enable the flame to grow that dwells within

And burn to ground the structures I have made,

Allow the vision, let the force descend

Sanction once more the work I came to do,

Give me the strength, the will, to live for Thee.