Sadness-heart-silence. Madness-mind-eloquence

1.

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Supreme!

My solemn promise:

I shall never stand

In Your

Unworthy Presence

With my

Sacred palms together

In supplication.

```

2.

```

Supreme!

You will

Never be able

To break

A single smile

Over my

Beautiful face. ```

3.

```

Supreme!

I am eagerly waiting

For someone

To replace You,

So that

I can have someone

To swim with me

While I swim

In the sea of tears,

Frustrations

And failures. ```

4.

```

Supreme!

You want me

To sacrifice

My life to You.

Never!

You do not value

My life,

To say the least.

Therefore,

I am buying a goat

For sacrifice

To satisfy You,

For I feel

The goat-sacrifice

Will be valued

By You.

```

5.

```

Supreme!

How I wish

It would be

A long-forgotten story

That I have touched Your Feet,

Desired and cried

For anything. ```

6.

```

Supreme!

I call You

My own:

A mistake

That defies

Correction And

Redemption. ```

7.

```

Supreme!

True.

My desires

Were great

In number.

But now

My frustrations

Are a million

Times more. ```

8.

```

Supreme!

I do not know how

You justify

Your Name:

"Eternity's

Compassion-Eye

And

Immortality's

Forgiveness-Heart." ```

9.

```

Supreme!

To me

The word 'compassion'

Is not applicable

To You.

I have

Luckily ended

My cherished,

Faulty dreams. ```

10.

```

Supreme!

Destruction I see

Within, without,

All around.

You are untroubled,

Unconcerned

And what not. ```

11.

```

Supreme!

When necessity demands,

Earthly parents

Warn their children.

I took You

As my only Parents.

You deliberately

Did not warn me.

It seems Your dictionary

Does not house

The word 'warning'.

Look at my fate:

Abysmal abyss-sorrows

Have befriended me.

```

12.

```

Supreme!

To worship You

Is to be

Intimately familiar

With the sorrows

And pangs

Of my life-tree

With all its branches,

Flowers, leaves

And fruits.

```

13.

```

Supreme!

Are You blind?

It seems You see

Only when

I am frustrated

And utterly lost

And I thrust

My anger-finger

In Your

Two uncomely Eyes.

```

14.

```

Supreme!

My sole desire

Was to become

The golden dust

Of Your Lotus-Feet.

I am so happy

That it is not too late

To withdraw

My desire totally. ```

15.

```

Supreme!

The less

I think of You,

The more I am free

From the

World-disease

Which You

Undoubtedly

And solely are. ```

16.

```

Supreme!

In those days,

The moment I touched

Your Feet,

Fears and doubts

Devoured me.

You may not believe —

Fears, doubts, anxieties,

Worries, frustrations,

Unbelief and disbelief

Devoured me

And my life.

Alas, a deplorable,

Despicable experience!

In vain, how hard I try

To delete it

From the tablet

Of my heart.

```

17.

```

Supreme!

Hard-hearted

You are.

Stony,

In every sense

Of the term,

You are.

From You,

Nothing shall I get,

Nothing do I desire.

I am self-contained,

Self-sufficient.

Believe it or not,

My self-perfection-life

Plus all-satisfaction-life

Is blossoming

Faster than the fastest. ```

18.

```

Supreme!

I was

A slave

To Your Service.

I am now

The master

Of my will. ```

19.

```

Supreme!

I shall not give way

To sleep.

My mind-tempest,

My heart-tornado

From now on

I shall

Sleeplessly treasure.

For they are real,

Unlike all Your

Hollow Promises. ```

20.

```

Supreme!

If anybody asks me

How to pray to You,

I shall tell him

Immediately,

"Do not walk along

That way.

Be not a fool.

Do not invite

The sea of sorrows."

And I mean it! ```

21.

```

Supreme!

If anybody asks me

How to meditate

On You,

I shall tell him

Immediately

To meditate

On frustration

Instead.

It will definitely give

A satisfying result. ```

22.

```

Supreme!

I gave up everything

To please You

In Your own Way —

Even the exquisite

Beauty

Of my heart

And the incomparable

Fragrance

Of my soul.

```

23.

```

Supreme!

I am so glad

That You

Have defeated me

In forgetting me.

Had it been

The reverse,

The whole world

Would have

Looked down

On poor me. ```

24.

```

Supreme!

You always

Talk about

Progress, progress.

Progress.

How is it

That You have

Not even once

Said one nice word

Of appreciation

To me

About my

Most astonishing

Rainbow-series

Of progress? ```

25.

```

Supreme!

Knowing fully well

That You would not

Wake deliberately,

I called and called.

Now I do not mind

Even if You enjoy

Your Eternity's

Tranquillity-flooded

Sleep.

```

26.

```

Supreme!

I had faith in You

For longer than

The longest time.

I am neither

Begging You

Nor forcing You

To change

The game.

But, I assure You,

If You ever change

The game,

You will not be

Disappointed.

```

27.

```

Supreme!

Positions and possessions

I gave You.

I do not have them.

I do not need them either.

My new life

Is my new possession. ```

28.

```

Supreme!

I do not want

My case

To be heard anymore.

I am now mightily free

From my supreme

Fascination-illusion-delusion-dilemmas.

I am now in a world

Of a newly acquired life.

I alone

Am my Eternity's all. ```

29.

```

Supreme!

Finally,

I am my

Volcano-anger-eruption.

I like it.

I love it.

I treasure it.

I am, at once,

The dreamer

And owner

Of a billion or trillion

Rainbow-dreams.

```

30.

```

Supreme!

There was a time

When Your Name

Was my only hope.

Now, my only hope

Is that I can remain

A perfect stranger

To You

Throughout Eternity. ```

31.

```

Supreme!

I used to cry.

Weep and sob

At Your Feet.

But those

Malignant diseases

Will never be able

To attack me

Anymore. ```

32.

```

Supreme!

You may say

What I am saying

Is absolutely wrong.

You just tell me

If anything is right

In Your creation. ```

33.

```

Supreme!

I have emptied

The tear-oceans

Of my heart.

I do not mind at all

If You do not

Come out of

Your dear, sweet

And self-amorous

Comatose sleep.

```

34.

```

Supreme!

You want

Your creation

To please You.

I do not know

How You imagine

Your desire

To be fulfilled

As long as You keep

Your creation

Not only

Unconsciously,

But consciously

Weak, helpless

And hopeless. ```

35.

```

Supreme!

To repeat

Your Name

Is to welcome

Untold misfortunes.

This is my

Infallible conviction. ```

36.

```

Supreme!

They say

That there are

Countless

Undivine children,

But no

Undivine parents.

Alas, how I wish

It could be true

In Your case.

```

37.

```

Supreme!

If You continue

To behave like this,

Then for God's sake,

Do not take

Upon Yourself

The name of the

Compassion-flooded

World-Pilot. ```

38.

```

Supreme!

To worship You

Is to multiply

One's self-doubts.

```

39.

```

Supreme!

The whole world

Understands me,

My poor heart.

Either You do not know

How to understand me

Or You purposely

Do not care.

```

40.

```

Supreme!

My hopes

Never thought that

They would find

Their fulfilment

Elsewhere.

```

41.

```

Supreme!

I fed You

With my heart's

Nectar-devotion.

I want the world

To continue

To have faith in You.

Therefore,

I am not telling

The world

What You are

Feeding me with.

```

42.

```

Supreme!

Both of us knew

Something special:

I knew

How to pray.

You knew

How to spurn. ```

43.

```

Supreme!

I begged You

For protection.

I never thought

That You did not

Even know

The meaning

Of protection.

```

44.

```

Supreme!

I clasped Your Feet

Most devotedly.

Alas, it was

My delusion-mind

That compelled me

To do so. ```

45.

```

Supreme!

Happiness I sought

At Your Feet.

But what have I found

And become?

A tear-stained face.

```

46.

```

Supreme!

Openly,

You tell the doctors

To heal the patient.

Secretly,

You tell death

To kill the patient.

Since the beginning

Of Your creation,

You have been

Playing this game. ```

47.

```

Supreme!

I desired to become

The dust

Of Your Feet.

I now have become

My greatest victory's

Tallest banner. ```

48.

```

Supreme!

Do You have

The capacity

To forgive me?

I do not think

You have.

```

49.

```

Supreme!

Do You want me

To forgive You?

For God's sake,

I do not need

And I do not want

To have

That capacity.

```

50.

```

Supreme!

It does not matter

Whether You came

To me

Or I came

To You.

We are now

The North Pole

And the South Pole.

This is what

Definitely matters. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Sadness-heart-silence. Madness-mind-eloquence, Agni Press, 1998
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