187. Why do you need others' love?

Why do you need others' love?
Is their love so important?

Why do you need others' love?
Is your love so impotent?

Why do you need others' adoration?
Don't you see them
In the same boat as you,
Sailing in the sea of ignorance-night
Towards the frustration-shore
Of nowhere?
Sri Chinmoy, The Goal is won, Sri Chinmoy Centre, New York, 1974