A Word In Your Ear

 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.