On the Shining Roads of Time

1/1/08

As one held under water strives to rise

Locked in the grip of a fierce relentless force

Suddenly there appeared before my eyes

As in a cinematic show the course

My life had taken, and now my soul awakes.

What glories in my arrogance I missed,

The errant paths, the thousandfold mistakes

The portents and the omens I dismissed

In haste to build my dream on a finite base.

I see a vision and a face sublime

In timelessness beyond the bounds of space

Who greets me on the shining roads of time.