Poems of Narad

Opened My Soul

2.12.2023

The mynas and the mongoose come to dine
At the table I have set for them
And One who has come my life to redefine
And place on me the spirit's diadem
Yet even though She named me for the sage,
The one known as the highest heavenly host
It will I fear as I advance in age
Take lifetimes to recover all I've lost
When years ago She lit a flame in me
The flaming Agni in my inner being
I was not able to hold the sanctity
And consecrated way of inner seeing
And yet She placed initiation there
And open the soul that still is in Her care.