The Darker Forces

Sept. 7, 2011

I watch the darker forces intervene,

In moments when we falter or we fall,

A subtle probing of our weaknesses,

Stealthily in silence they attack

Delighting in their use of human pawns

Who readily and eagerly acquiesce

To sate the ego or the vital's needs,

Desires' formed from patterns of the past

Established in lives we all have lived before

Fashioned from the dust of earthly clay.

And yet an eternal resident abides,

Watcher and guide who asks us to recall

The reason we have come, to find our soul,

Hidden behind the seven veils of mind

That screen from us the light that we have known

And mute the voice the spirit-self would hear.

These persisting remnants we must now discard,

Prohibit entry through the sanctum's door

And all our low propensities annul.