48. Asha mor halo
Asha mor haloGhor nirasha
Tabu prane raje
Puta pipasa
Asha tumi bujhi
Habe hatarsha
E jibane ache
Shudhu kuasa
My hope has become hopeless frustration today.
Yet I enjoy pure thirst for the unknown Beyond.
O my hope, it seems that you have become
Helplessly poor, weak,
An orphan.
This life of mine has nothing but tenebrous fog.
Sri Chinmoy, Illumination-Song and Liberation-Dance, part 1, Agni Press, New York, 1976
