Auroville, Beloved

Groping through night with the flickering lamp of mind

Too puny for the monumental task

To rise beyond our elemental kind,

We seldom see the person for the mask.

We seek without for the harmony hid within

Impose a collective commonality

On souls descended here, for ages kin,

Unknown, unguessed, yet married secretly.

To open once a window on the soul

And bow in recognition of the One,

Ever the dawn before us as the goal

Ever the love as a burning inner sun.

Auroville, cauldron and crucible of fire

Forge of the godhead's plenary desire.