776. Our fate

Slowly you glowed
But
Quickly you sank.
Alas, that is your fate.
Do you want to know
What my fate is?
I never glowed
And never shall.
I have been sinking and sinking.
Do you know when I started sinking?
Long before the birth of Time.
Sri Chinmoy, Europe-Blossoms, Aum Press, Puerto Rico, 1974