One True Direction

Tony DeLorger © 2016

We are a tribute to the light within,
if only we would let it out,
to shine as is meant, 
to reveal what we offer
to a world in thirst of light.

Striving, accumulating, driving
a life to ends dreamed, 
is all worthwhile,
but if we are not who we truly are,
doing what we truly love,
we are fraudulent.

Compliance, necessity, responsibilities,
are all accepted reasons, 
but only if by them we are true to the self,
doing what we do through our talent,
our expression of love to the world.

Love or fear are our choices and path,
from these two we forge our lives,
and when love is chosen, light revealed,
there is nothing impossible,
a universe of ceaseless joy accommodates.

Despair is the crutch of disillusion,
and disillusion is simply the knowing 
of a light-less life,
and joy the realization of a true self,
uninhibited by other concerns, love pervading all.

Potential is boundless,
light eternal and inexhaustible,
it is we who must decide,
who we are, and what we wish to do in life,
there are no other truths that delivers us, 
but through love's light.