38.) Vision Broadens, Light Enters Deep...

Vision broadens – light enters deep

The subterfuge is passed, that misted life

The armour of self-love no longer needed

There – that was the beginning

There where shields fell – no longer clung to

That was the opening – where stars fell

Would they never guess the way in?

Plain though it was – this door through my mud

That gave to the pathways of the sky

Was to the world’s mean-eye – mostly hard hid

As air is harder to see than a mountain

And – fleeting – the world’s brief sight of it

As late summer’s shimmer on a bird’s wing

Passed – and quickly disappeared it is

As the sky-edge is gone with the sun

Heavy as the armour they wore against it

Was the blinding of their heart’s eye

The door they looked for they refused

Would they never guess the way in?

In a once wicked whirlpool – fire’s unwinding
Of a firkin weight of ice
That set me free of all my armour
Till I saw – and with a child’s listening eyes

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