Soul's Testimony

White beams celestial in refulgence bright!
As whetted swords exploding many-fold
From morning's primal star, you slay
The old foul fugitive that curls within the night
And longs for nothingness. You strike away
My flesh and make me void beneath the One
Who sweetly moves within my deeps undone
And gives me form to last the coming day.


1982