Transcendent God

How long before the doors so tightly sealed
Against the Presence and the force of Love,
The shuttered windows of the mind shall yield
To Light's descent and bliss revealed above.

When shall the sorrow of the world abate
And oneness tie the tattered threads of dreams,
A harmony beyond to consecrate
And to the seas of God unite the streams

Of life that run in narrow rivulets
Or flow meandering through sunless plains
And in our rushing fantasies forgets
The source and substance of the soul's domains,

A heart that widens consciously to know,
A spirit seeking for its misplaced key,
Transcendent God who fills this world below
And waits our turning towards Divinity.

(First published in Mother India - September 2003)