Swami Ram Kripaluji Maharaj

"Love Each Other on Behalf of Me"

The Lasting Thirst for Beauty

If only I could catch

The starry twinkle of the dark night,

If only I could touch

The flashing smile of the dazzling moonbeam,

If only I could hold

The curved contours of the sloping hills,

If only I could enfold

The ripping tresses of the silken streams,

If only I could caress

The smooth sinuous branches,

If only I could kiss

The perfumed nectar within the spring buds,

Would it quench,

Thirst of my soul,

Forever?

But may I dare defile,

The pristine purity of beauty,

Even with the bare streak of my thought?

How much I fear to shatter

The poetic silence of all-holy Love,

With sounds drab of utterances prosaic.