Journey's Goal, part 6

1. A soundless voice

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I always need,

My heart of poise,

2. O frank and baby smile

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You have won my heart,

In life’s confusion-mart.

3. Your Silence I sing

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It is my heart.

It is my mart.

4. You claim me still

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O ignorance-fool!

I have a new school?

To be a perfection-tool.

5. I shall not fail

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I shall not fail.

My heart shall sail.

I shall succeed.

The glorious lead.

6. Why?

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Why should I take

Why, why, why, why?

To please God’s Compassion-Sky?

7. To be, indeed, a cosmic god

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I shall try only to succeed.

I shall try only to proceed.

8. Sing me a song

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My Lord Supreme.

My silver dream,

My beauty-sky,

My oneness-tie.

9. Farewell

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O ungrateful world.

So high I have thought of you.

I totally forgot

10. The sound-music of humanity

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For the poor and feeble souls.

For the lovers of myriad goals.

11. One fallen flower

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I see and cry;

I love and die.

12. In silence we converse

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My Lord and I.

A hopeful sky.

13. Give me a little time

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Give me a little time.

Without fail,

14. My ancient sadness

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Haunts me, my soul.

My cosmic role.

15. You can do your task

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Drank deep the fount of Light.

You fell the Titan tree

16. A too-familiar song

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“I do not know.”

“My life shall grow;

17. A silver cry

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Has lifted my psychic sky

A silver cry

I shall in Heaven’s vaults fly.

18. Two tutors

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Faith-beauty’s cry,

To feed my perfection-need.

19. My heart swimming

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In silver light.

In ecstasy’s height.

20. Your lively lustre

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Challenges death in life.

Destroys the breath of strife.

21. Flow forth my tears

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My promise I fail to keep.

To ignorance-sleep.

22. Silence-speed, Silence-seed

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I love your beauty’s flow.

I love your duty’s glow.

23. Lord, give me

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I need, I badly need.

My heart’s only choice.

24. Come out and bloom

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No doom, no doom.

No blow, no blow.

25. Because I love

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You will win again.

Yours will be one life

26. Come, come to me

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I shall give you

Come, come to me.

27. My face tells me

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How far I am, how far.

How close, how kind You are.

28. Each day

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Each day I forget my God-Vision-Ray.

29. Love and serve

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A time to love,

When the morning dawns,

Become the breath of love.

Serve, serve,

Of God above.

30. Give me the capacity

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Give me the capacity to conceal,

I want to conceal my previous life-flow.

31. Now I understand

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Why God has stopped

He does not talk to me

Have enveloped me totally —

32. Alas, alas

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Will not wait for me.

Does not care for me.

Has forsaken me.

Has deserted me.

33. One honest tear

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an spear the veil

And herald the birth

34. Only one deed

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I shall sow the seed of love-oneness-light

The blossoming tree of Perfection-Delight.

35. Fill my heart

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With a silence-glow.

By falsehood’s giant blow.

36. My teacher and my tutor

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I love him and I love him.

I love plus I need him.

37. Nothing worse, nothing better

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There is nothing better than faith.

For its fire-pure change.

Indefinitely extended range.

38. Kindle the fire

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Therein I shall seek

The room of greatness

I shall see, I shall see.

39. Dear friends

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Peace has a dear friend: sincerity.

God has a dear friend: unconditional necessity.

40. Stop!

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O busy vital, stop!

O drowsy heart, stop!

Fly up, dive deep!

41. I shall feed

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Inside the living breath of my heart,

Today I shall begin my journey’s start.

42. It's too late

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I ask my soul to come.

Personally.

And waits for nobody,

Here, right in front of me.

43. I have sung

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Bliss-song I have sung.

Surrender-song I have yet to sing.

Remains still incomplete, unfulfilled.

44. You have given me

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I have given You my heart’s gratitude-tree.

I am offering You my heart’s service-might.

45. Ascend and descend

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My smiles descend.

The joy of Truth.

The love of ruth.

46. I shall awaken you

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My only all,

With God-Manifestation-Call.

47. Divine

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How can I shout?

Within, without.

48. My silence-sun

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Save you, my life

Pitifully undone.

49. You are calling me

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I smile and smile.

Why, you know;

Your own Heartbeat flow.

50. Soul of endless beauty

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Do teach me the song:

You are the only one

Therefore, all souls

51. You pray well

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Do you know why?

Because you love well,

In the heart of silence-night,

52. Two friends

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My hope-sky and my faith-sea.

And swim unreservedly

Since the very day

Under the sun-vast golden ray.

53. Stop not

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Stop not,

Carry me farther down.

Stop not,

Until you have helped me

My soul’s destination-crown.

54. My secret

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God is my pole-star-promise.

55. I spoke

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I spoke to man with a doleful cry.

I spoke to myself with a fruitful heart-song.

56. How I cried

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When I heard I shall not see

Purity-goal

How I cried!

57. Inspiration

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God the Length.

God the Height.

God the Omnipotent.

Where He dances

And with Heaven’s El Dorado.

58. No haste

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Taste nectar-delight.

To fight against teeming odds

59. Although

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I know I have tried.

I have failed.

In our uncertain life.

60. My birthright

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How to claim once more

Therefore I am divinely happy

And supremely proud

61. My life, my heart

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I have committed to Thy God-Serving.

I have committed to Thy God-Keeping.

62. I kneel before Thee

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With devotion pure.

For You to console.

To enjoy my Godward eternal destiny.

63. Silence and sound

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Sound fire-pure I need,

And in my life of dedication-game.

64. Lord, keep me humble

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This is what I pray,

Make me holy wisdom-light

Against ignorance fight.