In God's Image

And I, well I awake as all the world

Awakes to first delight in common things.

Profuse this year the 'Autumn Cherry' glows

And in the leaden April sky it brings

Beauty's fullness by the water's edge.

Oh, that we so troubled and alone

Might leap to new-found knowledge of the soul,

Absent grief, no longer to atone

For errors and omissions of the past.

Man's days unchanging prepare for a great change

Becoming conscious of the need to grow

Into the image that he holds within,

For a higher consciousness than mind to know,

A wider heart, a body pliable

And ready for the definitive embrace,

Rearrangement of the DNA

Impossible but for the unfailing grace,

A strength to counter resistant nature's drift,

Towards entropy, death's implacable pull,

A love inclusive of all dividing laws,

A life lived joyously and to the full,

Aware, alive to divine experience,

A citizen of world's unseen, unknown

And galaxies that hold reflected light,

Of the Self aware and in God's image grown.