Because you never claim of us a tear,
O Silent Love, how often we forget
The eyes of countless centuries were wet
To bring your joy so near!
Forgive if I remember not the blaze,
Imperishable, perfect, infinite,
Of far omnipotence from which you light
Your lamp of human face!
Make me a worship-vigil everywhere,
Slumber and wakefulness one memory
That you are God: O let each pore of me
Become a mouth of prayer!
(written in 1934)
(Taken from The Mother Past-Present-Future. First appeared in Mother India in November 1974)
(K.D.Sethna (Amal Kiran) is a well-known poet and the editor of monthly Mother India. He has written large number of books and articles on a wide range of topics. He came to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram when he was 23 and passed away in 2011 at the age of 106.)
