Illumination: a poetic reflection on discovering Truth

This is an unstructred, mostly free-verse poem, written a couple of years ago, in response to what I had begun learning as I started studying at seminary, and my great surprise and fascination with those truths I had encountered, and even the very process whereby I had learned them. Here, I focused largely on the use of assonance, alliteration, and linguistic phrasing to provide the internal cohesion that the absence of rhyme and meter otherwise left it lacking. The heart of this poem attempts to capture the profound and ehxilarating experience of discovering new truths which convict the heart and compel the mind to believe in something noble and worthy in which to entrust one's very soul and being. The final pair of verses - highlighted by their insertion at the end, in a manner reminiscent of a concluding sonnet couplet - comment on the feeling of a deep longing for purpose and truth at last satisfied and fulfilled, if even for once, as if it would never come. I hope the imagery and use of language strikes you with the depth of the experience it aims to portray, for any of you who have known such a singularly defining moment of personal revelation, which you knew would change you utterly. Thanks! 

Of vigil, 'neath soft-glimmered flambeaux,

In Book of antique wisdom rapt,

'Loft lyric-versed glyph I pore,

For truth unfixed despairing:

Cruxes, riddles, decrees unbroken

Paint its Author of eld –

Purposes and primal dreams,

Vestigial boding, presages;

Mapping meaning onto

Frames of reason faithless,

Verities and fashioned writ thus fused into

Breath of archaic divine;

'Til, as if by magic, or some clairvoyant eye –

As oracle betrayed, of timeworn tome or folkish myth,

Like burnished jewels in streamlet shallows –

The hallowed rhyme enscrolled reveals

Its brilliant glory, on banal leaf enshrined;

Runic majesty of its theme ere cloaked

Now 'lumined lambent of heavenly-dawning light:

Sacred codes upon an open page,

At last, unveiled –

If once, unveiled.