Ever and never
Will you love me,Lord, if I love Ignorance more?
I shall love you:
To you open my Spirit’s Door.
Will you love me,
Lord, if I marry the fires of Hell?
I shall love you.
Your life’s venom tree my Eye shall fell.
Will you love me,
Lord, if I live with wildest Death?
I shall love you.
In you I sowed my deathless Breath.
Will you love me,
Lord, if I come to you alone?
Never.
Bring quick
With you the world, else I shall moan.
Sri Chinmoy, AUM — Vol. 5, No. 2,3, Sep. — 27 Oct. 1969, AUM Centre Press, 1969