O my long, fruitless stay on earth,
What can I do?
You are helpless,
I am hopeless.
I mean God, the same old God,
Is deliberately heedless.
The following twenty poems were written at the Calcutta Airport Hotel, Calcutta, on 27 October 1979.
- Sri Chinmoy
Excerpt from: Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 3 by Sri Chinmoy, Copyright (c) 1900 by Sri Chinmoy – All rights reserved