I invoke you—
Spirit of my father,
invoke you:
Worshipped ancestor
Spirit.
You who sits at feet of God;
In whose image
We and the universe were created.
In life, the meeting of our eyes
Is a lost memory; yet
In life, sons and daughter
Are spitting images—thee and me.
As these eyes and mine meet,
I yearn that our eyes to meet again
In this transitory earth bound world.
Ah, but I am consoled in the revelation,
That you in ancestral world are preparing;
And that we shall enter into a glorious immortality.
I invoke you;
Spirit of my father, I invoke you
In the spitting images of sons and daughter—
Be pleased in these humbled seedlings
In whose human forms your spirit is transformed;
And in whose life forces your spirit will forever abide.
Spirit of my father, I invoke thee; spirit of my father, abide in me.