450. THE PRISONER

He is the prisoner
  Of his own experience.
He is the prisoner
  Of his own realisation.
He is the prisoner
  Of what he says and does.
He knows the secret ways
  Of the universe.
    Nothing,
    Nothing gives him joy.
He is crying to restore the forgotten paradise.
Sri Chinmoy, Transcendence-Perfection, Agni Press, New York, 1975