We Shall Arrive

No joy is everlasting and no truth

Pinned down as eternal verity,

No evil act that cannot be redeemed

Or lie that holds a grain of honesty.

We are not here as on a darkened sea

Rudderless upon the tides of time.

The witness to our deeds no autocrat

Who doles out punishment or high reward

To those alone who heed his harsh commands,

But one who leads the caravan of life

Journeying through the deserts of our lives

And through the valley of our dark desires

Or on the mountain peaks of discovery,

To summit transformations of the soul.

Awake in us while we are yet asleep,

The polar star of our unerring course

As we meander and are circumscribed

By life's events and pleasures great and small.

Whether by routes circuitous or straight

We shall arrive to see the earth transformed,

Harmony and bliss our rightful state.