Searching — Metabstract

Can you show me how to do it
Guide my searching hand
Until in all my blindness
I sight an incandescent strand

Can you show me how to do it
Without taking me from myself
Can you know this feeble heart
And yet revere my mighty self

Can you show me how to do it
A life well-lived, and death
To walk this world with vigour
As well as silence in my breath