To Her

As burns a solitary lamp in night

Dispelling through its light all worldly gloom

So with the candle trimmed within my soul

Where I have built a sacramental room.

I felt the plenitude of Grace draw close

Have seen beyond the ever-doubting mind,

Beyond the body and its thousand blows,

A truth to which my life is now aligned.

I have touched the Absolute, its joy I feel

And though I fall I rise again each day

And strive to turn this flagging will to steel.

I am an actor in the cosmic play

And though my part be small I cannot say

That I would change my role as servant here

To Her whom all my births in time revere.