The Bounded Boundless Poem by Jayita Bhattacharjee

In the haven of solitude, the heart is on fire,
For beneath the layers, there begins the explosion,
deep in the soul, the heavenly hush, the holy communion.

The world may wonder, 'Is this loneliness? '
No, no! Have you heard of aloneness?

The luminous solitude where silence strikes a fire;
The contemplative cave, where a person is burned
In the flames of longing, only to be a seeker and sage.

As a moth to a flame, there the soul dives,
Inn the sea of solitude, to hunt the pearls
that lie deep within.

The moment arrives when the vision travels inward,
Leaving the world outside, you find a new world inside.

Is this the world of luminous stillness,
the enlightening solitude, the heart of heaven?
In the heart of silence, you go deep to find,
in the world outside, you were nobody,
but, in the world inside, you are somebody!
Somebody with identity, and there begins the
divine alchemy.

You, the moth, find your wings in the longing for flames,
burning in the fire, you find your flight.
You, the seeker, soar above the finite to infinity,
The bliss in burning.

'I Sense My Thirst'....Excerpt
Jayita Bhattacharjee