{"id":1024,"date":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/but-alas-world-has-tied-my-hands\/"},"modified":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","slug":"but-alas-world-has-tied-my-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/but-alas-world-has-tied-my-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"But Alas World Has Tied My Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the sun shone bright in Rockland,<br \/>After many a chilly gloomy day.<br \/>The emergent but yet shaky spring danced over fragile but lithe new blossoming.<br \/>There was a bounce in the air, there was springiness in the ground.<br \/>Everywhere I looked around there were colors of you,<br \/>Every blade of grass I touched resonated with your memory.<br \/>Longing to see you overpowered me so much<br \/>That I forgot that I am not free to see you.<\/p>\n<p>My dear I wanted to share with you the difficulties I am in,<br \/>I wanted to let you know of the shackles around my hands \u2013<br \/>Condemned prisoner that I am of this world.<br \/>I am being punished for my ancient sins.<br \/>But the doors of justice I have thumped on with all my might<br \/>Are still defiant to even open a wink.<br \/>I wish I could let you know all this,<br \/>But my thoughts are frozen, my lips are sealed.<\/p>\n<p>I am walking through this world<br \/>But I feel I am not one of its inhabitants.<br \/>I see around me too much commerce but too little heart,<br \/>Too much calculation but too little values,<br \/>Too much information but too little vision.<br \/>I am surrounded with glitter and excitement but I am lonely.<br \/>How I wish I could talk or write to you but I have no time.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to chase you out of dens of my fears,<br \/>And draw you in valleys of my dreams.<br \/>I want to hold you in wings of my thoughts<br \/>And keep you warm with dance of my breath.<br \/>I would like to live with you every minute of the day,<br \/>Till the last moment of time.<br \/>Our love could be brighter than Sirius,<br \/>More perfect than a full bloomed lotus in a tranquil lake.<br \/>But all this can not happen as<br \/>I am tied down in a long cultural incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>The shades have been pulled down on the still smoldering ambers of the day,<br \/>Evening has descended on earth in serene stealthiness,<br \/>The survival stresses of the day are melting into<br \/>Placid and romantic mood.<br \/>It seems that in spite of its many sharp angles life is still worth living.<br \/>At this time I wish I could be with you,<br \/>But my angel we know that world has first claim on me.<\/p>\n<p>I love you to the last atom of my being:<br \/>You are my invisible light, the essence of my meaning.<br \/>I have chased you through the cosmic uncertainty<br \/>But always believing one day you will be mine.<br \/>After eons now it seemed our tryst was close<br \/>But alas world has tied my hands.<\/p>\n<p>I may not meet you in this life<br \/>But I have absolute faith that in my next life<br \/>The world can not take you away from me.<br \/>I will call you in the cosmic stillness of dawn,<br \/>I will look for you in the ravishing sensuousness of evening,<br \/>I will wait for you till world frees me from its chains.<\/p>\n<p>Suffern, N.Y., 12.20.09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the sun shone bright in Rockland,After many a chilly gloomy day.The emergent but yet shaky spring danced over fragile but lithe new blossoming.There was a bounce in the 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