We Shall One Day

July 11, 2012

I visited the place but knew it not
A hidden chapel deep behind the heart
Inaccessible to those without a light
To guide or steady compass in the soul.
How many years I drifted on the sea
Of my becoming, favouring the isles
Where pleasure called as sirens on the cliffs
Or worked for self and self acknowledgement.
Though warned of danger still I travelled on
Forgetting all, preoccupied with love
And endless labour towards an unknown goal.
The past still haunts me as I turn to see
My youth, a wanderer through dream and song.
The last of those who guided me now gone
Into the welcoming arms, the vast embrace
And I face alone the lethal danger-force
Alluring and beguiling me to fall,
And as I call I do not turn away
To live to face the emptiness of days
Repeating endlessly the senseless rounds.
We are upheld by a transcendent hand
Lifting us from the lowliness of state,
Our stumbling steps, our halting weak attempts.
But his I know however many lives
Required for the shades to be drawn aside,
The blindfolds we have worn to be removed,
We shall one day unite with Two we love
Who came to earth to help and guide and save
And I will join those choruses of praise
And kneel to kiss the feet of the Divine.