A torch for You

A torch for You                                                                                    
 
Become hopeless, You say. 
I’ve invested all the hope I have
 
in the One whose shoulders
bear the weight of multitudes;
 
entrusted with the Mandali’s souls –
Mani’s guileless adoration, for example;
 
Mehera’s unworldly devotion;
Eruch’s plea:  Don’t let me down!
 
Love makes no demands
but promises invoke certain expectations.
 
Faith is blind in the end,
but there are flares along the way.
 
I look to those burned-out, love-ravaged souls
who carried to their graves, a torch for You
 
and the silent assurance and authority with which
You accepted their immeasurable sacrifice.
 
O child of God, you are a lover of Meher Baba!
What wondrous company you keep!
 
                              (from A Jewel in the Dust, 2011)