Poem November 7, 1970 Issue

UNBROKEN BEING

Peter J. Henniker-Heaton

Man cannot be polarized, is not divided
In bitter confrontation, Left against Right,
Age against youth, East against West, each sided
In hostile camps, unable to unite.

No nursed frustrations, disruptive and repelling,
Can hurl men outward alien and alone;
No rigid systems provoke them to wild rebelling
Against the general interest and their own.

A personal mortal, rejected or rejecting,
A physical shadow, brief-lived between night and night,
These are not man with his whole being accepting
The tidal splendor of unfragmented light.

One God, acknowledged as the Mind of all creation,
Bridges galactic gulfs from star to star,
Links pole with pole in free participation,
And rules His universe through love, not war.

Peter J. Henniker-Heaton

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