WAIL-MOANS FOR LOVE SCRAPS
The poets press their faces to the Love-Room's door,
begging for scraps from that Love Affair.
One of them catches a love-drunk whiff and cries out:
Raaadhaaaaaaaaaaaa! Krishnaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
(It's as if you can crawl inside of that sound
and melt
into electrified longing...)
I will tell you, the philosophers aren't even inside of that house;
they hand out leaflets on the street corner
and debate the meaning of muffled sounds:
Is it One? Or is it Two?
Are the waves separate from the sea?
But there's no riddle to unlock; no Sphinx guards the gate.
It swings open, wildly
on the winds of the lover's cry,
and some of those leaflets actually say to go in!
I even saw one that said:
Become a drunk poet
and wail-moan
for Love scraps.
Book Excerpt
From and for God is an intimate and contemplative collection of writings on the spiritual path. Through poetry and prose, Sitaram Dass honors his teacher and shares his heart’s journey on the path of Love.
