432. HIS LIFE WAS SICK WITH DESIRE

His life was sick with desire.
  He knew no other thing but desire.
    But
There came a time
  When even his desire-thoughts left him.
Then he sang the song of separation.
    But
In separation he still found no peace.
He found peace
  Only in the heart of aspiration-cry-tree.
Sri Chinmoy, Transcendence-Perfection, Agni Press, New York, 1975