Sun Blossoms

Single Smile

A SINGLE smile from thee awakes in us
A bliss unknown to worlds of human thought;
Losing life's shadow-inconsistencies
Our hearts are to a luminous harmony wrought.

Our life and death are thy mysterious boons;
Haloed by thy grace an inner beauty glows;
Even their wild notes and disparate tunes
Blend in thy play like petals of a rose.

Ever we bow to what thy will decides,
For unimpeachable is thy secret law;
Though from our eyes thy occult purpose hides
And we are carried like an aimless straw

On the wide current of thy will, we shall reach
Our heaven built with granite rocks of peace
On the bright desert of a timeless beach,
Washed by the laughter-waves of seven seas.

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