An idiot

I know I am an idiot true.
In the growing clouds my hopeful feet,
Hands flung skywards for the blue stars.
My throes, no sun, no moon, shall greet.

I had a dream, a real dream:
God would bury Himself to live.
In human ignorance hungry and black,
To human death His Soul He'll give.
Sri Chinmoy, AUM — Vol. 1, No.10, 27 May 1966, Boro Park Printers -- Brooklyn, N. Y, 1966