By The Star

The outer world will glimmer and gleam and enchant your senses And keep you bound in its shiny illusion that leaves you wistful and longing for release.

But for all the times of trials braved and painful days passed On a path that begins and ends in the greatest release of love and of life

In the end and in summation All that can be said Of the blatant truth that evades us for in life as in death The only way out is within.