My first friendship with the muse
Thy love to bind
My Lord, kidnap my heart, I humbly pray.Alas, mine is the life of a ruthless knave.
I must die, no one must mourn and toll the knell.
Without Thy Light my goal an error grave.
Eyeless desires and I together live.
The human souls frown at my moping mind.
My famished heart pines for Thy bounty height,
Awaken my Will, my Lord, Thy Love to bind.
Sri Chinmoy, AUM — Vol. 8, No. 6, January 1973, AUM Centre Press, 1973