I am so poor and weak
Man, I am already so poor,Why do you have to dash me
To the brink of fears?
I am drawing the curtain
On my humiliation-life.
God, I am already so weak,
Why do You have to dash me
To the brink of tears?
I have already drawn the curtain
On my humiliation-breath.
Sri Chinmoy, AUM — Vol.II-4, No. 7, 27 July 1977, Vishma Press, 1977