A testing fire to melt all dross <br />A lesson, to teach me, the necessities of life! <br />A time given for me – an exile, a thrusted penance <br />To sit alone and reflect under my Bodi tree. <br />A yaga I make, the sacrificial fire burns within <br />One by one, I give up, I renounce <br />My ideas, my plans, my ego – Mine, mine <br />What all I thought was mine – I burn them all <br />In the flames – my desires, my hopes, my dreams <br />All ashes in the wind – I find <br />None of these were ever mine <br />It was I who was in their grasp! <br />This body which binds me <br />A mere Potter’s shred – holding <br />Few drops of rain – Grace, sent from above <br />To quench the thirst of Souls <br />Crossing this desert of Life! <br />God heard my prayer, my question <br />Thrown into the dark heart of space, <br />At once my wish He granted and <br />Set the answer before my eye. <br />God breaks the legs of wayward lambs! <br />But, carries them in His arms <br />Close to His sacred breast <br />On their long and weary way Home!<br /><br />Angelina Pandian<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-think-reflections/
