Translation

```

I desired to grasp happiness.

Alas, all I have grasped is a sky of sorrow.

All my hopes have grown into

Fathomless pangs.

My aspiration-heart is thrown into

The jaws of destruction-night.

Yet my perishing life stretches

Its arms towards You

For Your Protection-Feet.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Illumination-Song and Liberation-Dance, part 2, Agni Press, 1976
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