Sunday, October 19, 2014

The song

It’s a beautiful song
My heart sings it.
The trees down the road
Seemed to sing it too.

Did you hear? Do you see?
That plush red tree
At the end of my lane
That understood my vein
The melody arcane
And then jumped in the refrain
Moving its leaves
In an elegant rhythm
Taking my song 
To a higher new realm

That lady on the road
Seemed to catch my song
And smiled widely in turn
Carrying the smile along

I enter my room
It greets me with the song
Welcome back, oh friend!
Let us sing along

A whole new world chimes in
And joins in my glee
The harmonium, the tabla
Add another layer to the symphony

The spring in my walk
Oh! Where did it spring from?
This contentment along the sojourn
Carrying me lightly along

It was you, I know
In whose praise, this song flows
Endlessly, boundlessly
And it still goes

The lesson on dispersion

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