desire for this World and all it can give
is often beyond me

or I am gone beyond all such desires
and look only for the next world

the place of eternity
where home will truly be home.

Don't make me go back inside
Please don't make me go
I think I might throw up
They all say "just grow up"
Don't make me go inside, I beg
Don't make go inside

Sleep quietly, now that
the gates of the day are
closed. Leave tomorrow's
problems for tomorrow.

The earth is peaceful.
Only the stars are abroad;
and they will not
cause you any trouble.

can you put hand on heart and talk to love
knowing loves supreme reality
with all the humility you can gather
ask love to take you mind body and soul
and then do with you what love will
only let you love, love, come what may?

You are not poor if you
love something, someone,
humanity maybe, and have faith
that you will somewhere,
sometime be satisfied, though you
know not how.

You may even feel that your
sorrow is but a school to teach
you the virtues of sympathy and
gentleness, that will avail
you hereafter, though you know
not where.

I am not always on the highway
that leads to this hilltop,
but I have seen the lighted road
stretching on and on;
sometimes I have even fancied
that I saw the windows of
the castle all aglow.

And I have hastened my steps
to be in time for the feast,
and taken counsel of my courage
lest I falter and fall on the way.

May I keep this vision of
the castle ever before my eyes,
and a belief in my heart
that the journey is worthwhile,
and the castle and the glow
in the windows not all illusion.

voice
without
love
is
pain
to
all
ears
who
know
the
truth
of
things
they
are
hearing
and
love
is
heard
above
rhetoric
when
it
comes
to
injustice

as sure as Sun follows a time of cloud
so too the way of Human experience.