My Sun-beam Seed

Sure

When the sun-beam bloomed

I knew the seed was mine

In the flower-dust of rays

                A gloom whispered

Somewhere a dark carcass burnt

A call was left on my shore

Over the sand stood a night

                Weeping alone

But deep in the veins of dust

                A birth hankered

Something moved

                A breath stirred

And silently a moment lived

Yesterday left a shadow behind

Today knows

                Where is the path

A shadow is not a dead ground

Anybody can tread it

Tomorrow-when it comes-

Must know whereon it walks

But sure when the sun glooms

It leaves a seed

                In the rosy sand

To become the rose of the morning

My seed is never dead.     

~R K Raizada ~

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