The Luminous Dream

Whatever you think you can, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
. . . . Goethe

Bless this home, rising from the earth 
in a shimmer of glass and wood and stone,
so that what we bless we may also call our own.

Bless these walls as they embrace
a hundred thousand dreams, the imagined 
and still unimagined magic of this place

and consecrate the joy such blessings bring,
the bold crescendo of transforming fires, 
the stirring melodies our souls desire.

*****

For now the outer work is done and it is we 
who must become the luminous song, 
the light that brings the outside in,
a symphony of soaring strings 
dancing like seeds in sudden flight 
singing in this garden, "new life, new life."


commissioned for the opening of 
The Music Center at Strathmore 
Montgomery County, Maryland
February 3, 2005
reprinted with permission of the author
 

© Michael Glaser