To One Whose Sorrow Cannot Ebb Poem by Richard (Narad) Eggenberger

To One Whose Sorrow Cannot Ebb

You have not felt the burden of lonely years
Or known in night the memory that sears
And chills the blood, invades the heart and mind
Brings to searching blinded eyes the tears
Of relentless sorrow solace cannot bind.

You have not seen the servant depart in peace
Or watched the cancer of the world increase.
The tears you shed are of the ego-kind
And nether forces that use us as they please
Until we grow and higher nature find.

There are those descended here who brought the light
And placed it in the bowels of the night,
And though the clouds of doubt obscure their sun
And death retains awhile his painful rite,
Know in your soul God's victory is won.

To a young Person