~Lantern of Light~

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When you walk in darkness
it is no use carrying a lantern
Whose light cannot be seen.

For, then, every step you take
Will be a hesitation into the unknown
Where any tiny pebble on the Path
May cause you to stumble.

Or the slightest impediment
A cause for you to give up
And abandon the journey,
To try, perhaps, another path

So make a lantern
Lit from the Red Indian Fire
And whose light shines clear
For the way you've come
To be seen and marked

And for the way ahead to hold no fear
For others who come after you
To walk with an assurance,
Seeing by light from a torch you have left.

For those who walk this Path
Should not be left to grope in the dark
When light can make them aware
That the Path is beautiful
And the steps they take
Can be a choreography of beauty too.

For the Path is the Beauty Way, the beautiful way,
Where all who will may Dance in Beauty
Around their own hearth fire
What they need to light the Way
Is a lantern that is bright

So make one
Lit from the torch you have been given
The eight rayed Torch
The Flame Within
That illuminates the Eight Directions
And the Eight dimensions
Make one.
Be a Sun