Who gazes into night & a new Intelligence
in the stars can see?
Who stands open to inspiration to receive what launches
peoples into futurity?
Who absorbs age-old tradition, ancient arts of wisdom,
the Earthwide panoply of cultures,
but says, I am not a puppet of the past,
I am not a hand-me-down child of other peoples & cultures—
I recognize all, absorb all, but what I absorb I transform.
Who says, I do not accept what lies dead
at my feet—
Let the old God be dead, for new Divinity will live
through me!
Let the dead return to the soil & enrich the soil—
Who says, I love enrichment of the soil.
Whose feet are planted firmly upon the body
of Earth,
who absorbs Minerals, Air & Water, Fire of Sun,
whose essence of Self is seed of the new Tree?
Who says, I attune myself to a new Spirit coming
among us,
I attune myself to the superconscious energies
of Neptune, Pluto & Uranus,
I attune myself to the Milky Way galactic influx
of new Intelligence.
Who says, Through me the new Vision of Ages manifests
its evolutionary intention—
All I absorb is made new through me.
Who says, I am a transformer!
I transform my conditioning, my complexes, my fears,
my insecurities, into strengths & psycho-spiritual tools
of Psyche.
I transform the woe-is-me, whining voice of my sufferings
into the Story of my struggles.
I transform decadent & dying culture into new riches
to be shared.
I transform old obscured ways into a new path shining
in the Labyrinth.
I transform the barrage of daily impression into insight,
unconnected information into knowledge, stale doctrine
into living wisdom.
I transform the art I work in, the childhood religion
I outgrew.
I transform the self I was.
Who says, I am a transformer!
I transform the past into a Vision of futurity!
Who says, I extend my hand to others & freely offer them
the fruits of futurity!
1991