My birth is sleep, my life is night

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Unknown my life shall die unknown.

I breathe unseen my ceaseless moan.

My birth is sleep, my life is night.

I drink an empty hope's delight.

Silence-sea and dancing waves of Grace

Long lost have I in my backward race.

And now my escaping breath I see

Captured by strangling eternity. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,AUM — Vol. 5, No. 4,5, Nov. — 27 Dec. 1969, AUM Centre Press, 1969
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