Compact with the Light

I have loved and nothing more need be said

To honour the living or to praise the dead.

Time is a tunnel through which the soul must go

To find the more than we already know.

Life seems a pendulum on which we swing

The heart a world containing everything,

It breaks and heals and wider grows through love

And the many peaks and pitfalls through which we move.

I have come to a place of silence utterly new

Where a witness-self observes all in its view,

Unmoved and calm it sees the storm arise

Responding with fury to earth's embattled cries.

I have known the predilections of the night

And seen the coming dawn through inner sight.

By this love I hold I shall one day embrace

The enemy in love's most sacred place

Behind the heart where we in union dwell

To make a heaven of our created hell,

The rift dividing soul from soul to heal,

Our promised compact with the Light reveal.