260 You Are Not A Man

You are not a man

Although you look like one.

Your very presence

Is nothing short of a nightmare.

Upon seeing you,

My whole world shall die

Before it hopes to dare.

The following twenty-five poems were written on 27 October 1979 en route to Calcutta from Bangkok.

Excerpt from Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 3 by Sri Chinmoy