Monday, March 2, 2020

Fruitless tangents

Fruitless tangents

You are the constant One
around which I circle in a labyrinth of lies,

one infidelity after another;
fruitless tangents off the narrow Way.

My mind neglects You, Lord, but my heart
          is continuously calling Your name.
My mind forgets the heart that sustains it.

Constant One, O Heart eternal!
Become constant in my thoughts!

Get it through my thick skull: the memory of You,
of myself; until we become, at last, the One
          who we already are!

O child of God, make Him your Companion,
ever handy, the Constant One, Meher Baba.

                               (from The Garden of Surrender, 2004)


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