Come To Me

From my heart rises an incessant cry Like a stormy wind gaining in force and fury With every passing moment, it becomes a tumultuous roar And falls in my ears loud and clear “I want Thee, My God and My Lord I want none but Thee” Enter the soundlessness of my being Transmute my silence into sheer joy Play on my tight strung sitar strings And fill the eerie silence with euphonic melody Be with me, not before or behind But by my side and all around I wait here with my lamp lit and burning Expectant and anxious, in this murky gloom Come to me as a puff of fresh air Fall on me as a shower of mercy Enthrall me with a burst of song And drown my weary soul in heavenly music Come to me snapping the binding wires of sin Talk to me dissolving the gloom of doubt Convert my world which is now a vast arid waste With new life burgeoning in every parched nook Sweep away the clouds of gloom hovering my soul And fill it with sunshine, luminous and bright Perchance if you leave me one day Let the loud lunged pitch of your voice Keep ringing in my ears as supernal music And your definitive striking image Keep flashing in my inward eye So that I will not walk into night Or dread the fall of gloom!