What Remains? (3)

1)  Summer Nights

On summer nights

I hear a whisper to walk outside.

In time, I stop to feel

The cool breeze caressing my face.

 

Slowly, I dissolve

Into the infinity about me,

And become a particle on the wind.

A warm glow guides me-

And I am One with the cosmos.

*          *

2)  Living a Dream

Become a mountain stream

And free the valley people of thirst.

Laughingly glide over immobile stones and stumps;

That is living a dream.

 

Become an eagle and soar above the earth.

Make your home on the highest peak.

Live on the wind and adorn the sky.

That is living a dream.

 

Realize each is part of nature

And where we fit into this theme;

That is living a dream.

*          *

3)  What Remains?

And the day will come

When all the things we cherished

Will have passed.

 

We shall stand Naked

Before the King

And He/She will ask:

            What Remains?

 

And from the depth

Of our heart

Will come forth a loving whisper:

            O Lord, You are the Eternal Reality.

                        SB