Chanting Of The Wrong Names.. Poem by Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi

If I had chanted the names of gods,
The number of times I repeated your name,
In my thought and vaguely muttered while awake,
And asleep, dreaming of you in silence and quake,
I could have reserved a seat in the high abode,
Where I may be seated beside the beautiful dancers,
Of heavenly Gods and I may be entertained in my next life,
With full gratitude to the receivers and the received,
Neither have I got a place in your crowded heart,
Nor in those places where people are placed as the happy spirit,
Have I had wasted all my life, thinking of the fragile relationships,
Either to the mortal or immortal beings: breakers of hearts,
I can’t understand what my original being is programmed for,
Yearning, hoping and wishing are the ways well traveled,
chanting of wrong names at the wrong time is done as expected.