Last night the autumn winds
denuded trees
whose burnished leaves
had brought delight.
For long I had been loath
to see them go;
I did not know
they would expand my vision by their flight.
Like leaves upon the trees,
the lures of mortal sense,
bright baubles of impermanence,
obstruct the real, the true.
But gentle winds of Truth and Love
sufficient are
to blow their nothingness afar,
revealing, thus, the wider, clearer view.
Poems
The Clearer View
From the November 1963 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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