The Feeling

My heart ascends to heaven’s height

When the feeling finds my soul!

My heart is the perfect picture

As this feeling takes control.

The world is an image I know

Like myself and all I am-

The past is here like today

And I can think like any man.

Secrets unfold with a great roar-

And the future is clear and bright.

Unseen wonders are surely seen

Like the stars of a cloudless night.

Knowledge is alive with reason

From its start until its end.

Life’s road is mapped throughout-

Every turn and every bend.

Sadness is a joy to know

And gloom like a summer’s day…

Like darkness filled with light

All darkness flies away!

Words assume the form of things

Which only words can describe:

The deepest depths of man

Ascend and are imbibed.

With beauty comes the feeling-

The beauty of earth or mind;

For both are the power and thought

Of the one who made them fine.

For a moment, I see with wonder

Through the eyes of the one all-seeing-

For nature is a vision of the mind

Who brought all things to being.

What wonders will come to pass

When the feeling lends its power?

What truths shall I discover

In that great and graceful hour?

How far shall my spirit travel

In the lands of word and wisdom?

How long shall my soul delight

In this vast and endless kingdom?

I will know, when it has past

And the world seems vague and dim:

For I shall have before my eyes

The memory of all I’ve seen…

Daniel Macintyre

(Original Copyright 04/09/2022, and 22/09/2024 protectmywork.com)