Burning Hearts
By Elton Wildermuth, 2000
I am everywhere about you;
I am the flame that gives you life.
I am within you and without you;
I am the striving and the strife
and I say,
Love one another
with burning hearts
love one another
with joy unbounded
love one another
with burning hearts,
be your enemies confounded.
All your sorrows are illusion,
for they will pass and then be gone;
all troubles come to their conclusion,
but there is that which lingers on,
so you must
There will come a day
when all you who adore me
will trample on the low men
in the day of your wrath.
I am the conqueror
who drives the sheep before me,
not of the slaves who perish
when they stand in my path.
On that day that shakes
the world to its foundation,
then be thou proud and mighty:
revel in victory.
Banish fear: in me
there is no consolation;
and though you long for death,
it is forbidden to thee!
Now there is no dread hereafter,
so taste your joy with every breath:
a feast of ecstasy and laughter
and then a greater feast for death,
and you must