This is Glory

This is the shadow but the light is unseen

Realer than this reality ever has been

This world foreshadows all that is real

All of your knowledge and all you can feel

Lost in a fantasy blinded and bleak

Reckoning substance beyond what we seek

Give me the vision, You take the dream

For nothing in this world’s as sure as it seems

This is glory, this is glory

Hallelujah, Glorious weight

For this is no burden

That is for certain

Wait for your eyes to dilate

You will see both the narrow and straight.

Now the shadows persist And the shadows obscure

Darkle, dull they resist the pilgrim’s sure cure

So come to the lightbearer To the luminous  light

So come near, wayfarer -razzle-dazzle your sight

This is glory, this is glory

Hallelujah, Glorious weight

For this is no burden

That is for certain

Wait for your eyes to dilate

You who seek both the narrow and straight.

January 10, 2023

Anthony Foster