Undying Soul Though I have walked upon the Way awhile No saint am I, no haloed head aflame, I am the mendicant with toothless smile, The leper and the cripple bear my name. I am the representative of grief, The acolyte who cannot relinquish sin I am the wayside weed, the blackened leaf, Receiver of the sordid mid the din Of life that stammers and of life that fails. Immortal though I am my body lies Upon the heaving tides and rarely sails To

On the Evolutionary Way I witnessed a transcendent miracle The parting of the soul from earthly realms And the body it chose as its receptacle, A miracle that mind overwhelms, That one could open eyes so tightly closed, Impossibly one final time to behold And turn to the beloved, soul exposed As death embraced the body growing cold. I have no knowledge of a higher plane And never have I seen the soul in flight I only know that we are blessed again By those advancing towards that greater light. I believe that love shall save us all one day And there are none exempt that shall not be On the evolutionary way Carri

Love Dwelt in Me Awhile I lay broken like a broken toy Tossed on the garbage heap of humanity. Love dwelt in my awhile and I knew joy And now I cast her ashes to the sea. Years of solitude and grief-stained hours In the tormented heart no calm has grown, I walk among the trees, the offered flowers But find no peace, troubled and alone. On leaving she has risen very high And in some heavenly ether finds her rest But here on earth I seek the how and why So soon must leave the beautiful and blessed.

Fierceness of the Sea 9/4/07 I did not dread the fierceness of the sea Whose riptide dragged and inundated me And held me in the slough of giant waves That lure the fearless youthful to their graves. I lay upon my back, battered and torn And thought I might not see another morn But there came on me a sudden vast of peace. No longer did I fight for vain release But as the swelling surge upon me crashed I rose and sank as if a being lashed To the deck of a ghostly ship in a violent gale And felt the life-force in me start to fail. With my last breath I softly called to Her, "Mother, if now my end is near I offer, Commend this soul through

The Lord of Light All the hidden moorings of the past That held this vessel close to common shores Must be untied and shorn the knots of time That keep us anchored to our petty lives, And habits old that circle through our minds And memories relived, small joys and griefs As on a tape loop playing endlessly, Endlessly repeated to our ears Sad songs beloved our eyes so fill with tears, They close us to the music of the hour, Harmonies and melodies the soul In correspondence with the higher worlds Brings down to earth, the other-worldly sounds. Let us now sail beyond the bays of self Brave the winds of fate to find new lands Where peace is

When I Embrace Her Love Forgive me friends, I who have betrayed A thousand times my soul to ego's will In the holiest of cities blindly stayed My progress for the dwarf-self's lust to fill. You who have left the body's prison walls Resting in a sphere devoid of pain, Hear me as my inner being calls. I bow to thee sweet spirits and again Implore forgiveness as I have now begun The distillation of those fragrant years, The little good or harm I may have done To you who live in company of seers, For thoughtless acts in my oblivion I ask thy absolution on this head, Stunned by the death of my beloved one And the rivers of

Light Will Be at the Last I have felt desire thunder through the heart To settle in the pit where passion lies Known too Her love divine so pure, so wide, All beauty in her kohl shaded eyes. And then in this embodiment I saw Her smile at me and all the world was changed And when she spoke I knelt and gazed in awe, My life remade, the past rearranged. I looked at former lives across a shore I could not cross, rivers I need not ford And knew a

Focusing the Heart Prayer is insufficient if we stray And wander in the alleyways of mind For then the concentration flags and falls And scraps of thought flutter in the wind. We must fix our prayer as on a candle's flame Expunging from the mind the outward sense Focusing the heart upon the Name In gratitude and humble reverence.

Once Long Ago Once long ago when the world and I were young All things I saw were mine, I owned myself And all around me was at my command, The sea, the sky were marvels I could hold And life so very easy to understand. Now in a body slowly growing old I smile upon the little human elf Whose world is unexplained, his songs unsung. Love came and dwelt a ruby in my heart. I met the One above all space and time, Creatrix of the heavenly galaxies Who came to earth and put on human dress To wake the spirit in man that it might seize Eternal truth and towards the Light progress And from the animal to Godhead climb And never again from joy

She She comes down to our little globe Enfolds us in her healing robe And patiently prepares the ground Sowing it with golden grain And with Her laugh the worlds resound Her slightest touch dissolves our pain And opens the gates of hope again.