45. EARTH-DOOR AND HEAVEN-GATE

Earth-door
Naked we knock.

  Heaven-gate
Nameless we knock.

  Earth-door
Offers us its peerless treasure:
    A ceaseless cry.

  Heaven-gate
Offers us its ceaseless treasure:
    The dream of the Beyond.
Sri Chinmoy, The Golden Boat, Part 12, Agni Press, New York, 1974