45. Then and now

There was a time
When I was the sadness
    Of a saddening thought.

    There was a time
When I was the madness
    Of a maddening thought.

    But now
I am the vastness
    Of an unhorizoned thought,
I am the brightness
    Of the solar thought.
Sri Chinmoy, The Golden Boat, part 3, Vishma Press, New York, 1974