At-one-ment

At-one-ment

Oh you of such little faith

who have lost your way

do you not know why

you doubt the Lord

Your God?

He Who is beyond all puny

            laws of space and time

                        is everywhere and everywhen

                                    cannot be bound by laws

                                                He created not and ignores

            bows not to your command

                        that there be

                                    but one Lamb

                                                Prophet and Messiah

            who lived long ago

                        lost in fogs of time

                                    or waits in mists

                                                of dreams yet to come

            leaving you destitute

                        and stranded alone on

                                    a bleak winter's beach

                                                with your home a distant shore

            forever out of reach

                        while you bear witness against

                                    the living God Who answers not

                                                your insane prayers of dark hate

            as you bow down

                        to your stone idols

                                    thirsting for vengeance

                                                and the spilling of blood

            when you pick up the stone

                        hammer nails into writhing flesh

                                    offer bitter vinegar on a lance

                                                to strangers you cast out

            proclaiming they be

                        disciples of sin deserving death

                                    with Lucifer and burning hell

                                                their grim but just reward

            even as you walk doomed

                        holding jangling leper's bell

                                    along a bleak haunted road

                                                with fear your dark companion

Oh you of such little faith

wandering lost in nightmares

know now that He is neither

deaf nor dumb nor blind

to any but the prayers of hate

He has not lost His Mind

nor forsaken wisdom

by granting hot appeals

for lepers and crucifixion

He has not succumbed

to pleadings for worthless things

nor ceased to be Himself

though you believe He rewards hate

The God of Love

            is the Lord of Light

                        Who knows your needs

                                    has not left you stranded

                                                as helpless bodies on lost beach

He knows without any doubt

                        you are His beloved children

                                    pristine and innocent still

                                                though you think such is not

            He has not changed His Mind

                        about you who

He created perfect beings

                                                of light unknown to sin

            and has set you

                        as bright stars

                                    radiant and glowing

                                                in the eternal sky of love

            and by His Will

                        you all are as one

                                    thus you together

be His only Son

            yet while you play

                        children's games in dreams

                                    become fevered nightmares

                                                of hot sin and writhing death

            He sends to you angels

                        in guise of strangers

                                    for you to meet

                                                but not cast out

            so that you may gently

                        learn again of love

                                    through the peace

                                                to you held out

            and so you who seek may indeed be found

                        and not wander alone and lost

                                    all whom you meet are brothers

                                                and saviours by heaven sent

            thereby learn atonement be not

                        for sins in fever dreamt up

                                    but at-one-ment

                                                for the gathering in

            thus Lucifer and hell

                        will from you mind recede

                                    along with sacrifice

                                                and fear of death's oblivion

the Lord of Love

                        decrees that we together

                                    with not even one cast out

                                                are the Lamb of God

            Who but for a little while

                        walked separate and alone

                                    in dark dreams on barren road

                                                but must now be truly found

See also:

000 Spirit: Table of Contents  (for hyperlinks to poems of spirit)