Poems of Narad

Dream Vision

I saw you bride eternal on the stairs
Connecting living forms to seeming death
Descend in a translucency of blue.
Almost a dress of powdered light I thought,
Angelic yet the living form of you.

So sweetly did you smile that I mistook
The symbol self for the goddess that I knew
And yet within and perhaps moving through
I recognized a headdress and a look
That fills the heavens of our solitude
With radiance eternal, ever new.

Why did you come to me my slumber cease,
Or was it you or visionary dream,
And why did I react with such unease
And speak the pain-filled words my heart denies?
It hurt my soul so deep the tears still stream
To see the wounded beauty in your eyes.

If I find the place where we again can meet
Escaping once this bound mortality
I shall go and kneel before your feet
O Mere divine, my life, my destiny!