the test

your tricks may have worked
in days of old;
this time
they could not stand.
what stayed purity
and held virtue?

ah, that mystery is hidden,
not to be unlocked
or awakened
until its time has come.

the old is past
and new things are nigh.
and what holds
the truest merit
is not in the corporeal
or sensation.

it is in the one who
holds the key and
guards the mystery.
and this altruistic
watchman
ardently waits
to release it
to one
and one alone.

in progress....