My vital and my mind

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Inside a field of thorns am I.

To quit its grasp in vain I try.

My vital wild and my drowsy mind

Are daily fed by Ignorance blind. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,My first friendship with the Muse, Sri Chinmoy Lighthouse, New York, 1973
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