Each Moment An Eternity

We must not make the same mistakes

As in the white-heat days of youth,

Tortured longings, great heart-breaks,

When nothing came the soul to soothe.

Is it over now, the passion-dance

As the need for all possessions dies

With the questionable word or glance,

Unbearable romantic ties?

Calm is not established yet

And the descent of peace is slow,

But all the seekers I have met

Along the path on which we go

Turn not from rock-strewn roads nor stray

Into nirvanic space, refuse

The challenge and deny the play

For a far heaven, earth to lose.

Each day is gold, the singing wind

Chants a dream of the positive

And all our faults the gods rescind

For those who in the present live

Each moment, an eternity

Of possibles, the farthest hill

Calls to us, the sweet birds cry

And cataracts of beauty fill

The valleys and the gulfs we knew

When mind was all, the soul asleep.

We see among the realized few

Our life, our love, is God's to keep.