165. The goal is won

Your days of orphan-sorrows
Are behind you
And
Not beside you.
Why, then, do you
Helplessly cry?

Your days of excellence-joys
Are ahead of you
And
Not beside you.
Why, then, do you not
Immediately run and declare:
THE GOAL IS WON.
Sri Chinmoy, The Goal is won, Sri Chinmoy Centre, New York, 1974