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TODAY AND TOMORROW

What you are today
    May be a concealed frustration,
But tomorrow you will definitely be
A revealed satisfaction.            (no. 956)

AN UNFINISHED CREATION

Man, because of your merciless ambition,
You will forever remain
An unfinished creation.            (no. 1128)

Other poems expand on humanity's current spiritual condition:

WE LONG FOR PEACE

We long for peace,
But unrest is on the upswing.
    We long for satisfaction,
But dissatisfaction
    Is the order of the day.                (no. 1085)

Of the poems that are written with this consciousness of time, however, by far the greatest number record the stages of develop-ment in a single, representative individual- ' often using spare, almost formulaic outlines, such as the past/present/future and yesterday/today/tomorrow sequences discussed in chapter one:

GOD'S LION POWER

Yesterday, I desired to be
God's Lion-Power.

Today, I desire to be
God's Deer-Speed.

Tomorrow, I shall desire to be
    God's Lamb-Fondness.         (no. 152)