Goddess, Hear my Prayer

Take me again down those same trails
where with too timid footfall I first did trod
not yet knowing to account for the minutes
of my days
not knowing haughty courage was a foolish shield
reaching with greedy hands for fleeting lusts
not holding on with Jehovian might to
the true things
 
my heart and armor has faired me well
but even the bravest knight still looks out through
the atrophied blinders of a gilded helmet

may I triumph where before there was travail
on paths where once a clumsy boy passed
now a clumsy man less wisdom goes
made humble by his mistakes
carrying the ledger of learned lessons
shed of the heavy ignorance of mankind
embracing that ignorance
ever seeking the knowledge unobtainable
coming to know and find the hidden goddess

so that where I failed
in those moments stumbled
I can now correct.

TA