Help of Helplessness

Mind would appraise and plumb the deep,

 But has no liquid eyes

    That will equp him for the enterprise.

He dives in his high courage, crying:

"All msut yield to my keen

   Swift piercing gaze," and yet there supervene

Strange blurs and eddies he could not

  Anticipate nor surmise.

    He stands in awe: whence did such gloom arise!

Rings out from the depths a vibrant voice:

  "The gloom is liquid light

     And thus to solid eues seems inky night."

Helpless he wails: "My real eyes

    Are blinded by the glooms!"

      Lo, on dark's stem the lone Pearl-flower booms!

by Dilip Kumar Roy

From Sri Krishnaprem