Music and the Dance of Life

Nov. 1999

At the edge of the inner vision's arc I caught

A dancer from another space and time

Whose feet descending earthward softly wrought

The rhythmed joy of deity sublime.

In a wondrous cloak enveloping our earth

Compassionately She sang of other spheres

And the coming of a superhuman birth,

Encouraging cessation of our fears.

One cannot know the force descending there,

Supporting bodies resonant with Her call,

The magnitude of light in Auroville's air

And Her summoning touch upon the sleeping soul.

Her cloudless smile unveiled the inner sun

And Soul shot forth leaving the Person behind

To follow in its wake, the future won

By the body of the Avatar affined.

By his compassionate infinity

He deals with the famous and the infamous

Equal applicants to divinity

And equal cosharers of nothingness.

So I chant the hymnic lines of stellar light

And dance to descending rhythms from the spheres

To release the dove to start its upward flight

And plant my feet to front the golden years.