A Great Hope

I have come here to be, 
though I often don't remember that.

I begin to think that I am here to do things.  

Yet before my soul even knew 
that there would be things to do here,  
it made a decision 
that it had a wish to be.  

Not even its own decision
because already before my soul itself came into being,  
a commandment went forth 
that there shou…