Forty Five Years Is A Long Time Poem by Prabir Gayen

Forty Five years is a long time

Forty five years passed,
It was a beautiful experience
to be on the earth,
Forty five springs,
Winters and summers,
It was beautiful to be
In the company of a divine soul,
The blessings of a divine master.

I was blessed with love unconditional,
A beautiful family life and
Compassionate friends and relatives,
I was blessed with very flowery
hearts of my parents and people
around my native place,
Journey of my life was a very
Smooth sailing one and full of Joy
and happiness,
Every moment was a moment of ecstasy.

Nothing is there left to be regretted,
Nothing is there to be undone,
I have no grudge against anybody,
Every human being is an unknown world,
Nobody seems to me a stranger,
I wanted nothing and achieved nothing,
My life was a beautiful garden,
Various flowers bloomed,
I am happy with all that happened
to me and I realised the truth
Of the illusion of attainment.

Things are beautiful
and they are beautiful the way they are,
No-thing is the real nature of all things,
The world is a place of experience,
It is for everybody and nobody
is there to be frustrated in any way,
The world is a place of fulfillment,
It is a place to become heaven and hell,
Hell deeply experienced becomes heaven.

The earth is a burial ground and
divine plain too,
Everything changes to become
alive and fresh,
Symmetry becomes palace,
Magnificent palaces become symmetry,
Through changes Nature becomes young
again,
The earth is a place of deep adeptness.

I have tasted the taste of life,
The love from various sources,
No bitterness do I carry in my heart,
The most beautiful minds doth
favour my foolish mind,
I have spent every moment of my life
with angels and celebration surrounded
me without my permission,
I am deeply grateful for everything
In my life and I and deeply grateful
to those who loved me the most.

Forty Five years was a great
experience to me,
I lived with love and the most loved
persons were with me as a gift of God,
Divine blessings were showering
on me every moment,
Sometime as Joy and sometime
as sorrow to make me deep within me,
My poetry fails to express my gratefulness,
Every single person to me was an
extraordinary way to lead me to move
into the uncharted territory of Divinity,
I am complete unto myself.

My childhood days were full of
Mysteries,
The nature was enlightened and
We were brought up with extra care,
The long green field,
very soft hearted playmates,
friends and the full moon nights,
Every bit of my childhood days
Were kissing me deep within my being,
I was falling in love every moment,
My eyes were green and nowhere
did I find any state of discomfort.

My youthful days were more noteworthy,
Mystery of infancy became seeking,
Every pair of eyes were the doors to divinity,
The glittering morning and the tired afternoon,
The dark evening and Sacramental nights
did propel me to seek the esoteric truth,
I was deeply in search of God
in the whisper Of soft breeze,
The clandestine movement
Of the stars and the Moon,
The infinite sky and the music
of the falling rain,
The soft and sweet chirping of birds,
and the smile and singing of flowers.

I heard the footsteps of God
in the beauteous walking of my beloved,
The smile and breathing full of wordless Virtue,
I heard the silent song the the space,
The booming pain in heart looking at the vastness,
and the thundering rainy season
that did seal my heart with pain
full of overflowing rejoice,
I did feel the flute of the highest Soul
beckoning every moment to drop
everything I had.

Forty Five years have passed
And it was a great Journey,
Many people died many years ago,
Many people are dying now,
New flowers are coming
and the fresh Joy of divinity is pouring,
New children are blessing
the earth with their newness,
New boats are starting the voyage,
Old boats are returning home,
Life with its uniqueness making
the earth a place of astonishment.

@Prabir Gayen
3: 50 AM, June 8,2021.