342. In my past, present and future

There was a time
When I lived to eat.
    I ate and ate and ate.

    Now
I eat to live.
    I regularly eat,
    I devotedly eat.

    There shall come a time
When I shall eat
    At God’s Will,
    At God’s Hour;
    From God’s Kitchen,
    With God’s Smile.
Sri Chinmoy, The Dance of Life, part 7, Aum Press, Puerto Rico, 1973