Eisenhower
We bow to fear.Fear fearfully
Bowed and bowed
To Eisenhower.
We think of war;
War thought of Eisenhower —
Victory too.
Two infinite extremes:
War and Peace —
War the destroyer
Of blooming world,
Peace the devourer
Of roaring War.
Eisenhower,
The Thunder
Of the Omnipotent,
Divinely arranged
For their dinner.
A dinner unprecedented,
And inimitable, too.
Both the Princes came in.
Two hearts became one
In a golden embrace.
They grew into all delight.
Dinner over,
War sat in absolute relief
At the feet of Eisenhower.
Peace commenced his dance,
A perfect stranger
To the dark hush of extinction—Night.
God smiled.
In words of dynamic Silence He spoke:
"The Man of the Hour."
Sri Chinmoy, AUM — Vol. 4, No. 8, 27 March 1969, AUM Centre Press, 1969