K.D.
Sethna
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Because You never claim of us a tear,
0 silent Love, how often we forget
The eyes of countless centuries were wet To bring Your smile so near!
Forgive if I remember not the blaze, Imperishable, perfect, infinite,
Of far Omnipotence from which You lit Your lamp of human face!
Make me a worship-vigil everywhere, Slumber and wakefulness one memory That You are God:
0 let each pore of me Become a mouth of prayer!
(Taken from The Mother Past-Present-Future. First appeared in Mother India in November 1974)
(K.D.Sethna (Amal Kiran) is a well-known poet and the editor of monthly Mother India. He has written large number of books and articles on a wide range of topics).