Open the Heart

June 5, 2014

I witness the turbulence of designing mind,

Its vain desires, its striving to achieve.

What brought us here, what secret still to find

Hidden through the years in which we weave

Our empty dreams beneath an indifferent sky.

How do we reach in our allotted years

The destined place, the seat of sanctity

From which is banished all our human fears,

Where frustrate hopes and human longings turn

Towards prayer and aspiration of the soul,

The easy path of satisfactions spurn

When looms before us the eternal goal.

The days are dwindling down, can we awake

To beauty on this hallowed field of life,

Open the heart and resolution take

To end our warring and our senseless strife.