Eternal Poems

Is the time not yet come for You to come back?

Are there still inconceivable and incomprehensible wonders for you to accomplish

before You decide to come back?

Should I wait and wear out my heart in eternal longing?

If this is Thy delight then let me wait joyfully

keeping my trust in You, only You!

Time is endless in Your hands. You know how to WAIT!

Ages bloom and fade like flowers;

Your centuries follow each other,

perfecting a small wild flower into a fragrant rose flower.

But, we have no time to lose;

And having no time we must scramble for our chances.

We are too poor to be late;

we just can no more afford to wait and be late!

But, my heart is glad within

and the air is filling with Your perfume of promise.

And I feel in the air a faint smell of Your sweet presence.

I know not from what distant time,

You are ever coming nearer and nearer to meet me.

Your sun and stars can never keep You hidden from me.

Have you not heard His Silent steps hovering around?

He comes, He comes, He ever comes!!

In sorrow after sorrow of His apparent separation,

it is His steps that press upon my heart and

it is the golden touch of His lovely lotus feet

that makes my heart jump with joy to sky!

“Please- - - - - swami - - - - -please - - - -!”

And one-day when the boys were sitting in darshan-line, swami chose to cut-across them,turning away his face divine!

The boys were shocked! They shouted, “please ,swami please !

But swami was un-moved !

he only whispered, “wait , wait, wait !!

First learn to please sai, then pray,

please, Swami please !!

first give, next take !

I have come to give, are you ready to take?”

The boys who were already confused,

their confusion was only more confounded ;

When the daily-dose of motherly love was refused,

the calves of dwapar yuga were naturally

dumb-founded!!

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