1.
...............my dear
Carry me near
Have not any fear
Have but some cheer.
Few days have passed
After seeing you last
However, i am lost
In thoughts you have caused.
Many a times you are sought
Never are you caught
Always in my thought
Without you, am naught.
Longing for you most
Thinking still of the cost
I always get lost
That you seem like most.
- Ananthapuri, 31.08.1991
2. Forgot not His promise God
Made at the fall of our parents first
Prompted Him His love for us
To send His only Son beloved.
Fulness of the time did come
Started then His redemption best
Sent an angel to Nazareth
Asking the consent of Mary.
The angel while message proclaimed
Virgin Mary sweetly acclaimed
"Behold the handmaid of the Lord
Be it done to me as you said!"
Thus while she surrendered herself to God
God too offered Himself to her totally
On whom on earth, gift such bestowed?
She too teaches a lesson through this
Empty yourself for something else
For two things can't be at a point be!
- 27.01.1978
Came we so some seven years back
To an unknown still a well-known palce
Though we came from different homes
Strong in friendship soon we became.
So many regions, so many cultures
So soon became one and the same
'Brother', we called one another
And so we treated one another.
Same in learning same in dining
All of us have received the same
No big, no small in our midst
All of us are treated the same.
Freedom did we have in play
Of course, in prayers too, for
No one could stand in between
God and me in silence.
Forced are we now to leave this house
You too fathers and brothers dear
Cruel indeed is the time of parting -but
We could live in memories so sweet.
-August 13th 1980
[Published in 'Caritas' the Seminary Magazine/Annual that year.]
