Poems of Narad

In an Age of Innocence

Sept. 4, 2005

In an age of innocence so long ago
When mind lay still and life leaped up in song
All the movements of our days were slow
And needs were few, we sorted right from wrong,
The family was a castle, safe and strong.
A simpler time in a quiet sleepy town
Where neighbours smiled and gardens ever new
Blossomed with the seasons and were sown
With care but still deep-rooted thistles grew
And prejudice unspoken flowered too.
Then Hitler rose upon the wakened beast
And children saw the family torn apart,
On earth the great Asura was released
Torment and pain the new demonic art
And night fell on the troubled human heart.
The evil now is easier to see
Torn are the coloured curtains of the mind
And earth confronts a dangerous destiny
Unless within the being's truth we find
An exit from the baser humankind.
When the soul is found we must break Falsehood's hold
Acknowledging the light that in us hides,
This human frame by God's design remould,
Reject the voice that whispers and divides
And feel the grace that now on earth resides.