The Songs of Angels Welcoming
The Songs of Angels Welcoming
I saw as on a cinematic screen
The papyrus of all our life unroll
Revealed was beauty to the eyes unseen
And the never-ending vistas of the soul.
Floating through dreams as on buoyant sea,
Unteared your face, unstained its radiance,
Aglow, attuned to unearthly harmony
And plenitudes exceeding sight and sense.
Then pain the dark companion came in sleep
And with him came the breaking of my heart
For death into your weeping cells did seep;
I know not why such beauty must depart.
Our life of bliss lay shattered in a day
When hope had fled to chasm depths unknown
To all except the Witness of the Way,
But through your body’s plight our souls had grown.
And the flowers of spring frozen in earth’s embrace
Shall surely wake again to blossoming;
You shall return, I’ll look upon your face
And hear the songs of angels welcoming.
