Revelation

There!
in the half-light
from a picture seen a thousand times
now unexpectedly a portrait shows
from that occluded world I met
not long ago, and saw old truth
emerging...do I see it now, again,
and is it mine?

Then it occurs to me that truth is
like that—
teaching from a world of shadow
crystalizing suddenly,
but best revealed half-hidden,
for I cannot take it all.

There is a time to covet the obscure,
to send the lamps away in order
to reveal
the highest art that streams
from an unconscious world
to which we shall return

just as the night has its own mystic
light
to consummate the day.
~