In Love with God

When I tried, my Lord, to see you

Through the open windows of my eyes,

You looked beyond every reach;

However, as I closed them and sat thinking of you,

I found none but you,

Smiling on the bottom of my soul.

If something that I have left in my heart,

You know, it has started eluding me, too.

O God! I feel something going across it

Since I attained you.

I wish I had passed all my life

In the pure light of your presence.

Being purely dependent on you,

I have ignored everything else.

To say the truth, I wish to live for you.

I do not know, O God, where you are;

But I know you hold the whole universe in you.

Morning, noon and night

I pray that no flower of my hope should turn fade.

Having absolutely drenched in your love,

I wake while in sound sleep

And sleep when waking.

I am afraid to think of anything else

Lest my sweet dreams should get away from me.

-      Ramesh Tiwari