IN MEMORIUM

All of us Remember, Remember,
The Heartache of eleventh September

We pray for those who left us
To awake in the Land of Light,
We pray for those who are with us
For strength in the darkest night

No room for cry and tears
No place to sigh in the gloom,
But to stand up with inner spirit
To challenge the dreadful doom.

We are born to fight for freedom,
O terror, where is thy sting?
Look, Life is fresh as a flower
And Love is a sparkling spring.

----- Makarand Dave

A Prayer by a Pilgrim

O Goddess, Great Goddess LIBERTY !
Playfully liberating,
Awake at this very moment
To proclaim the NEW AGE.

Oh Mother , holding aloft in one hand
The flame of freedom
And in the other hand
Keeping the BOOK OF UNIVERSAL LAW,
Arise at the Festival
Of all the people of the world.

O Mother Divine !
Wearing the crown of the creator sun,
Where the animate and inanimate meet
Where the individual self
And the Universe unite
Manifest Thyself in full Glory !

----- Makarand Dave