LOVE
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Can four letters express the immensity
That wells from within and chokes with joy
Can words confine the feelings unbound
Love that sends the mother's milk
To rush forth when she hears her beloved's cry
Love that springs when the little child holds
Her father's finger for a walk
Beneath the cool moon's light
Love that streams through
The sap of a tree that
Yearns for freedom with arms spread out
Love that makes day shake hand with night
And darkness again with dawn
Love that brings man and woman together
To beget their bundle of joy
Smiling into this delighted earth
Love that swells for people and country
Rushing to protect when danger rears its head
Love that answers the call of the hapless folks
Letting hands stretch forth for charity and compassion
Love that responds to a shrieking cry of pain
Love that is in man, woman and child,
In plant, animal and insect,
In earth, water and space
Love that is there anywhere and everywhere
Love that is within all and without all
The love that flows through the veins of this Universe
We search and search to seek the divine
It is here, there and everywhere
Flowing with the love that engulfs the world.
- Akhilananda Bharati.
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