For Sri Aurobindo

The Crystalline Translucence of Your Thought

The crystalline translucence of your thought

Illumining the ancient mysteries,

Your words like jeweled treasures finely wrought

Recall the soul's forgotten ecstasies.

Behind this whirling sphere of molten fire

I have caught within your voice eternal strains

Of rapture as upon a spirit-lyre,

A music healer of our earth-born pains

Is heard amid the violence and din

Of this too-loud creation in the vast.

O seat your presence firm and deep within,

Absolve my vain transgressions of the past,

Your calm that soothes the passion of my sea

To happy waves upon a sun-washed shore,

Instill that I may join the company

Of those intrepid souls who would explore

The fire burning in the vaulted shrine

And know its flaming brilliances as thine.