Return to Canaan

Return to Canaan                                                                                     

A pillar of fire and cloud guided Moses

and the chosen ones day and night

on their tramp through the desert –

their return to Canaan.  Arranged by God

to keep them from getting lost,

discouraged and distracted.

Meher Baba has replaced the fire and cloud

in our nowadays desert with His own image

and the sound of His name,

to keep us from getting lost,

discouraged and distracted.

Guiding His lovers – those newly gathered,

ragtag expatriates – in a night-and-day beeline

to our predestined, long-promised rendezvous.

O child of God, forty years is but a half-step 

in the journey that lies afore and aft.