Hope Beyond Humanity

Can you tell me how to get,

How to get anywhere but here?

I hear there are places full of sunshine and light,

Where darkness is powerless to pierce.

I’ve yet to stumble upon the key,

The key to this place they call wellness.

Yet I hear it is beyond all beauty,

And it fills the heart with gladness.

Some call it lore, A legend of myth,

Passed down to all who will hear.

But my heart longs to believe it true

As what else have I but this?

Fresh fields of daisies and sunflowers galore

Rivers streaming through fields.

Where the sun never fails to shine

And the clouds are unable to yield.

Transport me to this wondrous place,

I think I’d give most anything.

What have I to give, but my heart and my soul?

And those have already been claimed.

My hope lies not in this fading old world,

My promise lies beyond its touch.

My hope is in the world beyond

Whose assurance holds so much.

Bestill my heart to think on such things

My innermost self sent a-quavering.

Yet let me hold tight to the promises I have,

For in them I shall never sense a waivering.