12. The Goal is won

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Your days of orphan-sorrows

Are behind you

And

Not beside you.

Why, then, do you

Helplessly cry?

Your days of excellence-joys

Are ahead of you

And

Not beside you.

Why, then, do you not

Immediately run and declare:

“THE GOAL IS WON”?

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From:Sri Chinmoy,The caged bird and the uncaged bird, Agni Press, 1998
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