Here

(Pacific Ocean from La Jolla, CA. November 2007. © Robin)

Here where the world ends, and has beginning,
Here where the sunlight-spring of all our minds
Has birth again, and new beginning
The seeker finds.

Here there is body’s peace, and the heart’s uprising,
Here the illumined minds of other men
Are beacons on a mountain peak uprising
Beyond our ken.

Here there is quiet, and the world about us,
Here there is wisdom foolish men must know.
The earth is dumb with suffering about us,
And I must go.

~ Christmas Humphreys, Both Sides of the Circle