Ascension

©2012, Olan L. Smith

Ascension is our aim, not

Spiritual enlightenment, which

Comes over us like a wash, a beacon's glow in a deluge;

Even the shadows can witness light, although; darkness

Never will soar upon it.

Seeing is not perception and

Innocence sublimely given is neither insightful nor

Overcomes, rather; it is erroneous and does

Not mount the steed, while understanding is dominance of life's woe.