har moti me sagar lahre

SONG OF THE UNKNOWN

Down below the earth and up above the sky
There is always more than what meets the eye

With space as His robe, putting steps of time
Where goes the Creator none knows
Who gave light beams to the stars in their prime?
From where this creation arose
A mystery we can never solve,
howsoever hard we try
We have only to follow the rules
and not to ‘but’ and ‘why’
There is always more than what meets the eye

What prompted the quietly sleeping Engineer
To create this void of space
Where countless stars emerge and disappear
Without any source or trace
Why at all He maintains these globes
with a constant power-supply?
Whence brings them in their material forms,
where formless lets them lie
There is always more than what meets the eye

Our sun is no bigger than a grain of sand
In a desert lying all around
And round it moves the planetary band
As neutrons in a nuclei bound
When the sun itself is a spark only
in the endless blue we espy
Then think, where stands our soulless earth,
what position we occupy!
There is always more than what meets the eye

Aren’t we ourselves like transitory waves
In an eternal ocean of light
Whom picking each moment The Master creates
New figures equally bright!
When even the shining sun is losing
its life-force by and by
What matters, on this pigmy planet,
we humans live or die
There is always more than what meets the eye

But grieve not, at whatever distance is The Lord
Love always brings Him near
Even leaving to their fate the star-sheep-hoard
With black wolves in their rear
Can a father, howsoever far,
even on the firmament high
Remain uncaring, when he hears
his drowning children cry!
There is always more than what meets the eye