PROMISES TO KEEP
©2001 Mark P. Hirschhorn
from the Ascending Music CD 'Promises To Keep'
As I offer my awareness to this moment
To this silence where the Universe can speak
The realms of Death and Birth, the boundaries of blessed earth
Dissolve into an ever-winding deep
There’s a legacy of purity and purpose
Intermingled in this sacred air I breathe
While patterns, like an acorn that unfolds into a tree
Touch the myriad reflections of the once and future me
Eternity enchants me as my spirit sheds its skin
To unite in exaltation with the greater Soul within
Where the seed of stars anoints me, and lifts me from my sleep
With memories of Mysteries, and promises - promises to keep
How – how can I voice this yearning
This sweet desire burning, this precious peace returning
Into our lifestream flowing, beyond our greatest knowing
Tides of Time keep growing stronger – growing stronger every day
Now the afterglow of Paradise still lingers
In the long-forgotten reaches of my mind
Where visions meet and dance to shape the course of circumstance
Emerging in immaculate design
On this journey to embrace Illumination
At the hub of Fortune’s ever-spinning Wheel
I can see how I am more than I have ever been before
Delighting in discovering this Heart of Life revealed
The laughter and the longing, the pleasure and the pain
Have brought me to this compass point where only Love remains
Where the weave of words escapes me, surrounded by the sweep
Of harmony and history, and promises to keep
For Eternity enchants me as my spirit sheds its skin
To unite in exaltation with the greater Soul within
Where the seed of stars anoints me, and lifts me from my sleep
With Memories of Mysteries, and promises - promises to keep