Translation

```

To see the light

A tiny blade of grass remains wide awake all night.

To see the light

The buds offer their devoted eagerness.

Alas, neither a blade of grass nor the buds

Can awaken my aspiration-flame.

I sleep and sleep,

My ears tightly closed. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Illumination-Song and Liberation-Dance, part 5, Agni Press, 1976
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