Music on a Sleepless Night
And in the
sleepless night came a flash – a glimpse
of Elsewhen;
A mighty chorus,
a symphony, heralding the Unblemished;
Allied to the
windswept eternal night;
Beckoning the
vanguard of the King of Light;
Unheeding of the
temporal cacophony of the striving;
A song unfolding,
revealing a profound debt
To Compassion, to
the depths of feminine nurture,
To the eschewment
of the demon Denial who unlocks the door for
Brutal Fear, slinking
under moonless dark, usurping.
How came this to
pass in the o’er long adolescence of humanity?
Trees bent to the
ground in acknowledgment of the End and
The Beginning,
while the orchestra plays on before
Finally-understanding
ears:
“Know thyself,
speaking clay, hearing dust, seeing stones;
“Know thyself,
feeling water, caressing air, pulsing flame;
“Unto the Great
Moment we are beholden;
The eternal
moment of the ten thousand worlds;
High and low;
Far and near;
Inner and outer;
Blossom, life.
©
2006
Doug
Harvey
