You need not be smart, You need not be rich, You need not be beautiful, You need not be articulate, You could be average.
You need not be quick with words, You need not be planning a lot, You need not display your honesty, You need not apologize too often, You could be just yourself
You need not always top, You need not be the least either, You need not wallow in slush, You need not flaunt your nose ring, You could be common
You need not be well read, You need not know the classics, You need not read the Sheldons, And you need not recite the Shellys, You could be reading what you get.
You need not know Tagore, You need not quote Tolstoy You need not cry with Gibran, You need not explore Rumi You could only sing your own songs.
You need not know painting, You need not play music, You need not know the value of dollar You need not know the Galapagos You could be knowing only your small world
You need not know English, You need not speak French. You need not care for grammar You need not check the accent You can express in the language you know
You need not be admired by all the men You need not be envied by all the women You need not have the smoothest skin You need not be a star in a limited sky You could only be a weak flame
Yet, the skies will open for you On the day of reckoning It will be only you Who will stand before him with folded hands To receive the love that all long for
Yes, you will be that blessed being, For you have served the Master You have worked without longing You have toiled without a wish And you will be blessed
I know that you will neither be proud Nor unduly humble You will neither speak about the honour Nor try to hide it, You will offer yourself, a flower to Him.
Yes my friend, I have been looking for you here and there I have waited for you in the rains and the storm I have traveled the empty deserts and climbed wooded slopes I have scanned the oceans and empty skies Knowing well that you are very near and dearer
No, I do not hope to achieve you, I do not want to possess you I will not chain you with the covenants I will not make you walk with me I will watch in silence, your heavenly splendor
I will no more ask “Are you there?” For I have found You You are here dear, Close to me Nearer and very near.
Real and illusion Chaos and serenity Lost and the one in hand The one in hand and the one Which the silly life longs for Are all one. Or so say the wise. But I wish not to be wise. Give me the ignorance Let me be the stupid Keep the wisdom for the wise world Give me my life Before the sun sets. Let me walk into the sunset With my back to the world For, I would rather Take my world with me. I will not come back from there For there I will take Myself Whole and not part. Let me.
The world where I would go Will not be the same as here There will be no days and nights There will be no law And there will be one road And that road never returns There will be no memories There will be no yesterdays No tomorrows Just the day, today Neither births nor death Neither God nor His son Nor the Prophet No saints and none of the sinners Neither sound nor silence Neither light nor darkness Yet I will perceive Not by senses known Nor by spirit unknown But by faculties yet Not revealed to me
And there I will not be moved by Compassion Nor passion Neither pity nor Kindness will enter me And love will be the Nothing which will pervade Which the faculties that do not exist Shall not perceive.
