2180. Sweetness and bitterness

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Sweetness and bitterness

Fight against each other within me

To be my teachers.

Sweetness is anxious to teach me

How to become a morning rose.

Bitterness is anxious to teach me

How to heave an evening sigh.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 22, Agni Press, 1981
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