[DRAFT]

THE SPIRIT OF OUR DETERMINATION TOGETHER WITH SENSEI [A MENTOR]
a personal poem of determination by Phil 7/21/16:

You and I
uniquely equal 
together seek Sensei's heart -
never defeated,
unstoppable.

Climbing there, we'll touch the skies
and dreams of others:

seeming to move mountains
like waves
in the ocean of humanity's
vastness of beating heart,
seeking true teachings,for this age.

Together advancing irrepressible, like dawn
we shall climb
even the mountains become most immovable,
we thereby like dawn becoming stronger -

so that we can enjoy the view on the way:
and from the top behold
the vast vista of the paths
of mountains ahead,
using the infallible map from our Mentor's heart..

Thereby we shall also build mountains 
in society
using the paths created together by our victories, 
that others we teach can climb 
like stepping on our shoulders. 

We shall joyfully and gently
climb atop each other's mountains

exalting them and seeing further: 

creating a human pyramid 
suspended by the mystic law 
of the sun rising alone revealing
 
the glorious future ahead; 

and revealing
that the lead weight we were dragging 
strengthening us was really gold.

Hearts beating together,

we seek the conduct of a true Mentor

conducting by example -
one who would greet a stranger

as if embracing a long-lost child:
each time illuminated,

like a lion turning toward the moon 
suddenly revealed by clouds,

revealing those mountain ranges 
he has been composedly climbing leading
until the storm is totally 
penetrated and passed.

We his children are lion cubs 
growing to teach other lion cubs
with growing passion and power of youthfulness,

proving the Mentor.

Ours is the roar of lions, 
of Mentor and disciple praying as one,
advancing

challenging all injustice and suffering,
till reaching at last

the ocean of humanity, 
and touching and joining

the source of that ocean's beating heart:

ourselves at first roaring 

like the waves crashing on the shore,

then roaring 

to crush the cruelly angry waves 
of the ocean of humanity-

irresistibly till the ocean becomes a vast road 
to reach all hearts:

circulating
the true courage, compassion and wisdom
within all:

The path opened by one standing up alone,

the path for each of us to do the same,

where no one is left behind,

where uniquely everyone is found ahead

together

with our Mentor's heart,

advancing.