Friday 3 March 2017

ONLY IF......


Only if ....

Only if I can lose myself to find myself in you 
to start a new beginning  honest and true  
for every end has a new beginning I am told 
Looking  around I learn from unseen and untold 
Oh ! how painful are ways of losing yourself  first 
and then to feel intoxicated in bliss and divine thirst 

A heavenly image draped in pretty golden hues 
Fragrant  beautiful flower garlands  adorn you  
flowers bore with courage a lot of pain and distress 
plucked n' pierced by sharp needles and thread
but now they smile  happily feeling  blessed 
to be  wound around your gracious divine neck ! 

The holy prasad  presented at your glorious feet 
has a story to tell of its noble win not defeat 
It was first  stripped as milk from a cow udder
 then heated and boiled  with spices n' sugar 
losing painfully its  original color  n' form 
it now feels honored at this sacred  transform 

The glow of the lamp which burns bright here 
is possible because of the ghee in it so pure  
which came into being after milk was churned 
separated ,heated ,purified and burnt 
undergoing all this  gave tremendous pain 
only on losing oneself  it's  possible to gain

The flute on Krishna's lips has a story to tell 
it was an ugly bamboo in the unruly jungle belt 
going through the unbearable pain of being  
broken chiseled scraped  hollowed n' holed 
to play sweet music and dance with the soul 
Radha felt so jealous that his flute she stole 

So lose yourself first to find your true inner rhythm  
sit in silence n' listen to what comes from within 
let go all materialism n' put on the mantle of love 
when you wear only love nothing can rule above 
Be awake oh soul ! let not the world make a hole 
Shine bright and feel the oneness of being whole ! 


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