The Great and Luminous Door

June 13, 2014

Pain lingers long, forever some would say,

Secures a special place within the heart

Opens on night and closes out the day.

However hard we try it will not depart.

Are we not more than sentiment and sighs

Of longing for a time when calm shall rule,

I cannot believe that something in us dies

With each unconscious act as Nature's tool.

I believe - within my soul - I know,

That only love can erase the sorrowed past.

The more we are able to love the more we grow

Becoming love, unlimited and vast

In which all errors are erased, all sins

Transformed, a modicum of peace attained.

Even now the glorious change begins.

We see the children beautiful, unstained

Moving through our lives and holding still

The promise of a future without war,

Beings born of an omnipotent will

Who open for us the great and luminous door.