My Only Refuge

A prayer in rolling senryu.

Source of All Worlds
For the sake of all beings
Slay my hidden faults.

Dispell the darkness.
Sever the root of my conceit.
Forgive my cruel acts.

My Beloved,
Direct my practice inward
to the Shining Path.

Most Divine, offer
healing to those who suffer.
...rest to the weary.

Light of Perfection,
Source of all accomplishment,
Pure and infinite...

Show me the golden
Shore of the Liberated...
as vast as the sky.

My Only Refuge,
May I dwell in the presence
of your Perfect Love.