My despair,
My wild despair,
I have discovered
A sublime truth:
I can do something
Infinitely better
Than surrender to you-
Fight, fight!
I must fight against you
To bring to the fore
The Real in me:
My inspiration-sky
And aspiration-sun.
- Sri Chinmoy
Excerpt from: Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 9 by Sri Chinmoy, Copyright (c) 1900 by Sri Chinmoy – All rights reserved