All is wave

22 May 2025 — Lucas Galdino

All is wave

As waves were crashing on the shore
And roaring out their song
There came to me an angel bright
And mighty words along

Of which strange beauty I've tried in vain
In sane words to convey
And since have haunted deep my heart
And thrill me to this day

In softly chanting foam I heard
Mortality aloud
Reminding me that soon my soul
Would leave this fleshly shroud

Just as the waves, who roll so quickly
Back into the sea
My flesh to Dust, my soul to God
Would join Eternity

And thence, what comfort will I find
In pleasures of this Earth?
For what will I have toiled about?
What will have been my worth?

What consolation can there be
Before the mortal Fate?
What dreadful lengths of alien Time
Must frail Man tolerate?

The countless years of burning Hell?
Or empty Void's domain?
Or yet, a timeless pleasure dream
Again, and yet, again?

My limbs went limp, I tried to blind
Myself from such a sight
When suddenly, the angel showed
A view of pure delight

Time began to lose its sense
As moments bound to one
I felt a peace unspeakable
That left my mind as stunned

As waves emerge in space and time
From calm, eternal Sea
Does Man from Dust and God's breath rise
To live, to love, to be

The wave is lent its little life
So Sea's own life proceeds
As such a wave can't truly die
When life it will concede

For Life was never of its own
To proudly boast about
A gift received and carried on
And ever pouring out

As such a man can never die
Who is already dead
But God will then be life in him
And he may join the thread
Of endless Love that weaves the Forms
From whence he came to be
Becoming one with endless Love
He may, at last, be free