The Songs of Peace

They walk oblivious in the driving rain

And I, too, hardly in all these years

Aware of the underlying unity,

The golden, indivisible thread that ties

Soul to soul in matter's deep embrace.

Yet I have glimpsed a newer world that lies

Unnoticed by these finite earthly eyes

And though the signs are there too little felt

In the rushing of our lives towards sudden death.

Yet I have seen and knelt before the One

Who came to change, transform this mortal life

And set a seal divine upon our days.

He came in silence and in silence left

With God's imprimatur, the sun of bliss

Eternal in our hearts and songs of peace.