Makeshift scaffolding

Makeshift scaffolding                                                                      
 
Meher Baba laboring in the body,
established schools, dispensaries, ashrams 
 
and, at their height, abandoned them.
Mere scaffolding, He said, for the real work,
 
explaining no further.  One day my lifetime’s structures,
including this weathered tent of skin and bones,
 
shall also be razed, dismantled, dispersed –
things I consider vital, valuable and dear.
 
The real work having been accomplished,
all the apparent, quite human and temporal activities
 
shall come to an end, without sufficient explanation,
the makeshift scaffolding irrevocably removed.
 
O child of God, only the real work matters, 
accomplished beyond your efforts and ability to grasp.