Mehr Licht! More Light!

Last night, I dreamed,

I was in a room, and could not see.

Questions were asked my answers were three.

Someone said just wait, others must

know of your quest their answers returned it’s for the best.

Someone said let him enter

I could not, there was something barring my way, then someone said knock and I grasped the ring.

I lifted to the wall and then let it fall.

An answer returned of let him enter our hall.

I could not see, it was dark and lonely out there.

And someone said follow your guild you have nothing to fear.

I walked in that darkness for many a mile, or so it seemed.

Each step courage to take this must be the end of my dream.

Yet I traveled on toward  I knew not  each step followed the other.

With questions asked, and answers given by another.

I was taught to walk as you should,

given the road I had started on and brought to place where I made promise on.

I was given a Apron by which to labor with yet I was told never to place Moral stains on it.

Then they showed me their tools and showed me how to use them.

To a builders use a place where my soul my dreams to send.

Somewhere along the road my eyes become unheeded.

That I should see what so long was in darkness hooded.

My dream was so strange that I knew I saw truth, that we ask for light so we as men shall find the vineyards truth.

Written by, Harley Johnson.  Past Master of Koochiching Lodge No.270 International Falls, Minnesota.