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By way of jokeI tell my Lord Supreme
That I do not need Him.
But my Beloved Supreme
Has not yet mastered
The art of joking.
In all sincerity He tells me
That He needs me sleeplessly
And that someday,
Somehow, somewhere
He will place me
On His transcendental
Trance-bound Throne.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 5, Agni Press, 1983