One Long Known

10/22/09

Too soon is early joy dissolved

Awakened ego-mind prevails

And sees he world is very own,

The Truth recedes, desire assails

And swiftly lost the memory

Of heights once known and peaks once scaled.

The empiric only can be seen,

The spirit's faultless vision failed.

But deep within the self resides

The One long known in ages past,

Friend who solaces all grief

Assuring us we will outlast

Time's ravages, the stranglehold

Of death; reborn in bodies new

Advancing consciously the years

Towards beauty in eternity,

The presence of the realized few

Who welcome us with grave delight

Our souls now free, absolved from night.