World of Light I walked among life's filth and poverty, Saw cruelly broken bones of a beggar's child, The bleeding stumps of lepers challenged me, Human chattel beaten and defiled. One cannot know the dark depravity Of beings void of soul or consciousness Or to what depths of abject misery Man stoops to feed his willful wantonness. They dwell in that unholy atmosphere And battle for the body's right to stay - How easy for the soul to disappear From earth and all the torments of the way. But through the body's plight the spirit grows And hunts for truth amid the lairs of night, In every heart there lives a mystic ros

The Only Love 7/22/08 One laid a specious claim upon my heart And willingly I opened wide its doors, Then love's betrayal intensified my grief Who love her still despite vain cruelty, Possessiveness that eats away the soul, And pettiness that lack of faith begets. There is no law to recompense remorse No palliative to soothe the shattered heart. I know now that no possible exists To bridge the boundless gap that she has built Of the spirit's chasm filled with mortal tears. And yet a day shall come when souls shall know The only love is giving of the self.

Still Night Above the Sleeping Lake Still night above the sleeping lake, The sounds of life are silenced as am I. Soft upon the welcoming grass I lie Watching the indifferent stars drift by. In this microcosm of the evolving world All seems at peace, a meditative mood Descends like balm upon the troubled earth. One feels that evil shall sum up to good Humanity find a modicum of peace, Divided nations unity restore, The hatreds that for centuries inflamed The heart shall wither away and be no more. Yet change is such a monumental task, Apparent only if we look within And know this false persona but a mask, Allow the t

The Rivers of Compassion I felt the fire in me sputter low And knew I would have many births to go And countless raging rivers yet to ford, Legions of random thoughts to overthrow, A host of inner voices to be ignored. I stood alone in the autumnal light Far from the vision and the inner sight, That brought me here a soul aspiring To find the One who cleaved the veils ofnight, And I outcast from soul and wondering How fell I down from the anointed state When all my striving spirit's thirst to sate Was yet unfilled, the calm that I must be A distant star above my unknown fate - Then the rivers of compassion covered me.

Where Kindred Spirits Meet Your clouds of doubt obscure the sun of your love As if a diamond still encased in coal, Its rays of light unable to penetrate The density of its dark surround, Unless love grow in strength the tests to stand Of all the hostile forces that deny, Or hope is lost and we are left alone As on a bridge that leads to the unknown, A sad humanity devoid of grace Unknowing that the truth within each soul Can shatter darkness and release to light, The golden resident within this shell We call the ‘self’ unaware of who we are. “Go deeper” once a voice said to me For we in heroic struggle are not alone, To live in

Rejoined in Him The springtime of romance had slowly passed Into the glory of an endless year A wedded walk through all eternity, Absent worry and detached from fear. Most I remember were her deeps of eyes Cerulean and shining like the seas In whose swimming depths one could feel The undying light of ancient dynasties. But suddenly this gift was wrenched away And now my heart from sorrow cannot abstain I tended her and tried to help her through The cruel and endless hours of her pain. She spoke but little in those failing days In battle with an unrelenting foe Lethal with its multiplying cells That chemoth

I Met a Man On the road that leads to self-discovery I met a man who lived not by the mind, A reconciler of life's differences Who knew the secrets we still strive to find. An emissary of a higher force, A light surrounded him, unearthly glow, From heights unscaled and vistas yet unseen. Empyreal, yet one we somehow know, I marked upon his mystic countenance A happiness transcendent, not of earth And knew that bliss had found in him its home.

A Deeper Sleep I slept, a deeper sleep than death itself. It seemed but a brief moment in all time Or time dissolved and space collapsed in me. Then I awoke and saw the world anew, A symbol of unfolding unity. I slept again and in my dreams I saw The one called Hitler in a drawing room He bade me sing and bend to his dark will But I refused the fast approaching doom And found myself in an unholy place. I said to my friend, 'It is too silent here'.

Divine Love Governing the World - II I saw a glow upon a distant tree, Orange lanterns lighting up the sky, Huge globe-like blossoms set among the boughs On a sculpted form that seemed a royal crown. Approaching near, my eyes fell on the leaves, Translucent ribbons almost latex in their feel, In shades of mottled olive, pink and green, Like dancers in some spirit-troupe's review. Beneath a head of dense and darkened hue Each flower clustered in a

All Nature Bows I hold your beauty fresh within this heart And in mind's eye see the breezes blow Tossing the curls of your light auburn hair, The sunlight like a sweet caress I know Smiles down upon your countenance so fair. And fitting for the royalty you wear So easily the stars above you glow To form a diadem of splendour rare, All Nature bows as you in peace depart.