When Dear, shall I see your face?

Longing

In Indian teachings, Bira, spiritual longing is a very strong quality to reach
the feet of the Divine ...
Love, devotion, humility and longing are qualities conducive to spiritual cultivation.

Indian scriptures are full of such poems ...

The following is a poem on longing ............

When, dear, shall I see your face ???

At times, I shall live a life ...
I shall seek entertainment in sights and laughter ...
Yet, deep within the heart, I shall be seeking thee still ...
When, dear, shall I see your face ???

Man passes his life in many pursues ...
Running after at times this, another time that ...
All the while, a silent voice is asking ...
When, dear, shall I see your face ???

The same questions asked again and again ...
Life after life, birth after birth ...
Earnestly seeking, the soul tires and drops to the ground
Whispering, when, dear, shall I see your face ???

In many forms have I came seeking,
Through the great cycle of the eighty-four,
passing through transient happiness and many sufferings
When, dear, shall I see your face ???

It is said that man is the highest of creation,
All scriptures expound : in man is the only hope.
Without this body, non can find thee ...
When, dear, shall I see your face ???

Man tolls his life through many activities,
Studies, work, family, responsibilities,
At the time of death, a single question remains ....
When, dear, shall I see your face ???

Without a sight of thee, my heart remains pining,
Like a fish without water, it could hardly live ...
Have pity, dear, and grant me a sight,
When, dear, shall I see your face ???

Many errors I must have committed,
Else why is it that I could not see thou
Yet, Thou are Dayal, the all-merciful.
When, dear, shall I see your face ???

All the lucky ones have been ferried across,
Why speak of them in front of one forlorn?
Tell me, dear, do I stand any chance at all?
When, dear, shall I see your face ???

written sometime in the 1990s