From Sunset to Sunrise©

Slowly sinking, yet the light is still there.

With each passing moment the warmth becomes rare.

Faded away! The green flash has passed.

Oh, the darkness is fading fast!

All the beauty it did possess,

leaves me feeling succinct duress.

No longer do I feel its embracing light,

now replaced by the long lonely night,

where all my soul my fears do fright,

set out before me like the stars in the sky,

suns themselves, yet too far and too high

to bring me the warmth my soul does need,

resurrected from the loneliness that love has freed.

Wither gone? So wondrous globe.

Who filled my heart, where love does abode.

Do you hide in the night, filled with fright?

Or are you wearied from the days of old.

And I look anew at the stars above.

Do they know the meaning of love?

And within me an ember stirs,

One whose roots forever confers

with the Righteous One, Who does endure

among all of this palpable obscure.

Slowly, I see, the answer lies before me.

And as I look at each luminary

my senses seem to be leading me

out among this Universal Tree,

where everything is connected by a common thread.

A place where only my fears do dread,

for here there is no place for them,

something I owe solely to Him.

And then, it dawns on me,

that all that I see,

is much much larger than I will ever be.

Yet, here I am, consciously,

perceiving something greater than me.

So that I must be a part of the whole,

fulfilling some important role.

Now, with the validity of all these stars aglow,

I have reason to know:

“Wither has gone this wondrous globe?”

Into the seat of the souls abode.

To be renewed for me, a promise in the east,

a place where my soul can feast

on the abundant radiance, which I share,

with everyone who does dare

to bask in the glow of the Radiant One!

The same as before this rising Sun,

whose setting it took to open my eyes,

so that I can see what I now realize:

love is a gift, from the God of the skies,

for all who will receive, without disguise,

that all that matters is truth in our lives.

Which sets us free so we can be

one with another in the Universal Tree.

For harmonious joy and peace are ours,

we who live in the ceaseless hours

of times truth abounding among the stars,

never to be walled in by pain or scars.

As beings of light, invite respite

for the ones lost in the darkening night.

To whom can be revealed all that was concealed

by the mortared walls that they did build

with selfish plans and righteous demand

for self serving justice weighed in their hand.

Lord! Unveil their eyes from Your light,

show them what is wrong from right.

Give them the courage to risk it all,

so that one by one the walls can fall.

And how will we receive their call?

With love and truth for one and all.

For this is our salvation, consciously,

to be at one with the Universal Tree.

So... let’s look at ourselves and know what we see,

and dwell in that inviting valley

among the growing trend, which will never end,

towards true confidentiality

that we are the ones forever free

from the mistakes of our past history.

And rejoice, in the presence of mind,

that all truths, strongly combined,

will prevail us all, you and me,

into the realm of living consciously!

                                                                 G Yater