Shroddhanjali

You are so fierce –
you are so brilliant
I always wonder
why you are so radiant.
You are always there –
no matter what,
I try to look at you –
but I can’t.

You are always smiling
and your smile is so hot,
Can you tell me –
what inside you, you got?
I wonder and wonder
when you were born,
But I am happy to think –
you must be very young.

Please do not ever stop
smiling at us,
I always want to see
you there victorious.
You may be there
from time immemorial,
But still you got to be there
for ever – for eternal.
(August 18, 1975)

THE MOON

You are so bright
and yet you are so cool,
Your light is so smooth
and so beautiful.
You are like a huge
piece of diamond,
I think you must be
the eye of the lord.

Whenever I look at you
I always think,
How can I go there
and to you I may talk?
You are so beautiful
and you are so calm,
I am embedded in
your eternal charm.
(August 19, 1975)

(First published in "POETIC JOURNEYS OF THE
HEART – VOL. TWO’, published by Prairie Dog Press
in 1992)

THE SKY

What you really are
I do not know,
I look at you endlessly
but still I am at awe.
Where do you begin
and where do you end?
I do not know whether
I can answer this in my mind.

You look so beautiful
in your endless blue dress,
You look so great
and eternally boundless.
I always want to know –
what is beyond you,
But I am a little child –
I do not know how.

You seem to be just out there
and yet you are so far,
I try to reach you and feel you –
what you are.
You are so open
and yet so unreachable,
I wonder if I shall ever
really know you very well.
(August 20, 1975)

THE STARS

You are the wonders up in the sky –
you are the ones always with your smile,
I look at you and then close my eyes –
still all of you are looking at me, I can feel.

You are countless, you are endless far in the sky –
are you large or are you small as you seem to be?
Why are you so far and why you are so many –
I wonder if anybody ever could tell this to me?

You are so many and still you are so quiet –
I look at you and admire you joyfully,
You are so far and yet you are so clear –
I know you will always be there eternally.
(August 21, 1975)

THE UNIVERSE

Who you are and what you are I do not know –
I do not know when you were made and how you were made,
I look at you endlessly and I try to feel you –
but I can never make sure, where is your beginning
or end.

Did God make you or are you the image of God –
how do you think I can ever know you if you never
speak?
You are so endless that I forget what is end –
you won’t ever answer and I won’t ever stop to ask.

The sun, the moon, the stars, who are they –
I think they are you and you are they,
The earth, the air, the sky, who are they –
I think they are you and you are they.
(August 22, 1975)