Destruction's rod
O North, O South!O East, O West!
I have no cry,
I have no nest.
O ceaseless fall,
An unfed hope,
A fearful sigh,
A tightened rope.
A living hush,
My imagined God,
Without, within,
Destruction’s Rod.
Sri Chinmoy, AUM — Vol. 7, No. 8, 27 Mar. 1972, AUM Centre Press, 1972