I Bad Farewell to Night
Above the cliffside looking down its sheer,
I wavered on the edge of my resolve.
The ache of heart had plumbed the depths of pain.
A storm approached, its bands of clouds had screened,
With opal mist, the early morning blue.
The distant thunderheads seemed held aloft
By colonnades of rain.
The pounding surf was pillaging the shore
With surge and swell of sea.
Resounding hard against the break,
Its thunder broke the solitude with sound.
In vain, veiled streams of sunlight strove to lift
The brooding loom of nature's broiling mood.
Enveloped in the heave and thrust of shift
And change, I saw dynamic push and shove
As cosmic evolution lifted me
To heights beyond the ego of myself.
I knew that I, yes I, was part of that
Great magnitude of force.
No longer would I cease to be,
No longer forced to stand
Upon the brink of darkened doubt.
My chains removed, my sight regained,
With vision clear I gazed across the interval of mind
To view illumined immortality.
All this was cause to fling aside the stress
Of piercing sorrow buried deep within
The chambers of my spirit-core.
It roused the essence of my source to lift the spell;
That shadow of my grief of soul, to stand
Within the wider powers of my God.
Inside the vortex of His conscious might,
Made manifest expression from Divine Imagination.
Through Omniscient Thought,
As though a prism came, the vibrant tints
Of sound vibration, spilling from the streams
Of sweeping wind; cascading harmonies
As tonal lingerings; the visual harmonics
From the chords of Nature's song;
Dimension as the physical of self.
The pulse of our beginnings was the heart
Of all creation. Comprehending I was part
Of that celestial time; that beat;
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poem by Lynn W. Petty
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