318. Introversion

WHAT do you seek within, O Soul, my Brother?

What do you seek within?

I seek a Life that shall never die,

Some haven to win

From mortality.

What do you find within, O Soul, my Brother?

What do you find within?

I find great quiet where no noises come.

Without, the world’s din:

Silence in my home.

Whom do you find within, O Soul, my Brother?

Whom do you find within?

I find a friend that in secret came:

His scarred hands within

He shields a faint flame.

What would you do within, O Soul, my Brother?

What would you do within?

Bar door and window that none may see:

That alone we may be

(Alone! face to face,

In that flame-lit place!)

When first we begin

To speak one with another.