561. What others see

On his path
What others see
Is the world of sorrow.

On his path
What others see
Is the dance of despair.

On his path
What others see
Is the hunger of destruction.

But
He unmistakably knows
That his path
Is the sunlit path.
Sri Chinmoy, The Wings of Light, part 12, Aum Press, Puerto Rico, 1974