Look at their stubbornness
Look at this stubborn shore!It refuses to receive my boat.
Look at this stubborn boat!
It refuses to be a little more
Devoted to the shore.
Look at these stubborn passengers!
They just refuse to thank the boat
And shake hands with the shore.
Alas, I am lost in the confusion
Of indifference-sea.
Sri Chinmoy, Earth’s dream-boat sails, Agni Press, 1974