I Met a Man

On the road that leads to self-discovery

I met a man who lived not by the mind,

A reconciler of life's differences

Who knew the secrets we still strive to find.

An emissary of a higher force,

A light surrounded him, unearthly glow,

From heights unscaled and vistas yet unseen.

Empyreal, yet one we somehow know,

I marked upon his mystic countenance

A happiness transcendent, not of earth

And knew that bliss had found in him its home.

Immeasurable his stature and his mirth

Infinite the ocean of his calm.

His friendly face shone with a strange delight

That held one in an atmosphere of peace.

He spoke of things to come darker than night

And truth like a bell resounded in my heart

Yet this was not all, for looking deep

Within my soul he saw the future pass

Knew that which lay in me still asleep.

His eyes ablaze with Joy's deep inner fire

From the great and vast aeskesis of his soul

He mentioned future possibilities

Greed and power now man's heavy toll,

His mental blindness and his ego-lust,

And the purification that has now begun,

A time for silence and a time for trust..

No longer does he come to me at night

When mind is put to rest and dream-states dawn

But as a guide he is always there

In my slow awaking to the light of morn.

A gift of god, most gentle and most sweet

To lead me, though I stumble, to Her Feet.