A trembling hand
Resting on a rounded shoulder
Like an ancient sage
Glimpsed a flash from another age.
His eyes glistening in moonbeam smiles
With words that had sped the miles
Across the universe
In rhythms and light verse
He spoke unto a youth
Who’d proclaimed his search
For the knowledge that exists inside.
You are your own person
Never forget who you are
Spoke the sage to the youth,
Let no one mould you
As they desire and in their arrogance
They destroy the uniqueness
That make the essence of you,
Whether by schooling bribery or trickery
Their efforts are comical and puny.
In the face of the energy
That drives the life force.
You will win because,
these words you say
I think
I can
I will.
The ancient leaves the young man
He disappears into the golden light
The youth is singing and smiling
The day is no longer a night.
II
Embers cooling beside the river bank
As I lie in the windless air and thank
The sun, the rain, the moon, the earth
Because a forgotten element
May as well not be there
If we haven’t the time to care
In the time it takes to offer a prayer.
A dozen petals would have
Opened in your mind’s eye
A penetrating light
Would have shone into the I.
Gratitude falls not upon the stony deaf
But upon the leaf covered ground
At the feet of the Understanding
They will nod their heads
As you say the words
That will bless your soul
Which brings the joy that comes from giving.
Your eye sees the absent living
It weeps in the darkest despair
For you know that ignorance
Is like a gigantic lair
That ensares the weak, the bigot, the fool.
Throw away your cloak of darkness
That lays across your mind
That was born of television strangeness.
Make your heart for ever unbind
By throwing away the barriers
erected between us and the truth.
You will enter a new world
One that has existed before this Earth.