From my heart rises an incessant cry
Like a stormy wind gaining in force and fury
With every passing moment, it becomes a tumultuous roar
And falls in my ears loud and clear
“I want Thee, My God and My Lord
I want none but Thee”
Enter the soundlessness of my being
Transmute my silence into sheer joy
Play on my tight strung sitar strings
And fill the eerie silence with euphonic melody
Be with me, not before or behind
But by my side and all around
I wait here with my lamp lit and burning
Expectant and anxious, in this murky gloom
Come to me as a puff of fresh air
Fall on me as a shower of mercy
Enthrall me with a burst of song
And drown my weary soul in heavenly music
Come to me snapping the binding wires of sin
Talk to me dissolving the gloom of doubt
Convert my world which is now a vast arid waste
With new life burgeoning in every parched nook
Sweep away the clouds of gloom hovering my soul
And fill it with sunshine, luminous and bright
Perchance if you leave me one day
Let the loud lunged pitch of your voice
Keep ringing in my ears as supernal music
And your definitive striking image
Keep flashing in my inward eye
So that I will not walk into night
Or dread the fall of gloom!
Madam Valsa, I am pasting a copy of my comment added under my poem COME TO OUR LANDS to communicate with more of the PH friends on what you and I have opined earlier. Please, allow this comment for a few days. Our supplications are to the concept of 'God' but I assert here the probability of that hypothetical omnipresence being irrelevantly present if at all by chance it exists. I want to answer each of your arguments pointing out the superfluous superiority of the arguments in support of spiritual well being built on imaginary lines from times man made God! . 1. You are referring to omnipotence... I think there can never be beings / things that are omniscient, omnipotent or omnipresent. These terms are illogical and we human beings who will form less than 000012% of the total living organisms present on the earth are toying with such ideas which are magical and irrational. But the practice being that many would like to think they are 'all correct', a brutal majority of us think cannot think otherwise. 2.You refer to 'spiritual well being' being equal to or even being more important than physical well being.. If all are physically well off in an approximately uniform manner, one can buy your argument. The nonsense is either you or I can first have physical well being and at the end can even opt for the elevation to the spiritual well being whereas many millions will have to compromise with the absolute deprivation of physical well being in the material world and then they have to wait for the spiritual well being after death.In a world of equality all ought to benefit from the well being they are entitled to have and given to then unasked for. A Somalian must lead a miserable life till death and then should enter the heaven for eternity whereas Valsa George and Dinesh Nair can have both is ridiculous and amounts to no justice. 3.Those who call upon God are not blind. The happy beggar who sleeps for want of concerns and the sleepless rich man who turns insomniac for the excesses of his amassed wealth are not supposed to be the graphic designs of a God to drive this point home. There is no guarantee that by wiping out poverty and want we can solve all the problems on the earth. In this scenario your God might be blundering by allowing the co existence of vices and virtues. 4. What is God`s grace? He/she/it could have directly gone for abundant display of it by creating eternity for all from the very alpha and why all this humbug of testing the haves and have nots on different platters and why all these dramatic phases of allowing materialistic pursuits and La Vegas and hunger and suffering of Sudan and Sambalpur for a child`s fancy? Is that power that insane or regardless of things. May we ponder over things pertaining to a global problem and not an individual crisis. We are all here... we think and so we are... We eat and drink and so we write too. They cannot eat and drink and they cannot wage this war of words over this PH.. I am giving a 10 for your poem as commanded to do so by......... Thank you.
Spiritually a great poem indeed...........Valsa.......all the lines are heavenly and as if God Himself reciting these lines..............well done......thanks for sharing.............
drown my weary soul in heavenly music Nice devotional lines inviting Him to join hands. Please read my poem Come with Me when you have time. Thank you.
Joining you in this heart-felt prayer: Sweep away the clouds of gloom hovering my soul And fill it with sunshine, luminous and bright... beautiful and spiritual!
I love to believe in God and love does not need any argument, any logic or any proof. A lovely write that touched the heart.
valsa, glancing at the comments a bit, it is obvious that religion will elicit quite a response, though responses may oppose one another. assuming this poem is a heartfelt creation of yours, i will simply say that i think it has quite a bit of merit as a poem. of course you could have used more lowly words that this lowly poet would be more familiar with! (i'm mostly kidding with that last sentence) . why would God leave you? i don't understand that part so well. and i think [i have to always be picky, you know] over should be put between hovering and my soul. thanks for sharing. :) bri
Moved with the words praying so ardently to meet the Almighty......... excellent You may read my poems, My quest and my dream and Power of truth
Very inspiring writing calling upon Providence to kindle your being.............
Perchance if you leave me one day Let the loud lunged pitch of your voice Keep ringing in my ears as supernal music And your definitive striking image Keep flashing in my inward eye So that I will not walk into night Or dread the fall of gloom! , , , , , nkice poem, , , ,
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Amen, May God Almighty help us all, May God Almighty guide us all, May God Almighty show us all the correct path, wonderful :)