3176. A lengthening stretch

```

I call it a lengthening stretch

Of helpless loneliness.

My Lord calls it

My self-styled torturing stretch

Of sinking fruitlessness.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 32, Agni Press, 1982
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