Tuesday, March 13, 2018

******* ONLY THY GRACE *******




         




   
               1)              You wake me up with Thy gracious smile
                                To witness a new morn with a fresh sunrise
                                And one more chance for me to realize
                                To mend my guilty ways and guiles.

              2)               A billion times you looked with self-same grace
                                A billion times I slipped and went astray
                                You gave me unsought so many days
                                Yet still I fumbled and fell far behind the race.

              3)               My crooked mind confined in darkest room
                                Did not view Thee standing at the door
                                Due ways to reach Thee, I find no more
                                Wake me, Oh Lord, from this engulfing gloom.

              4)              So many times You showed me means and ways
                               So many years, months, nights and days ;
                                I could not come out of this mysterious maze ;
                               Too bright for me to see Thy wisdom’s rays.

 
              5)              I wonder at Thy patience sublime
                                How long dost Thou pursue this tedious game ?
                                We err so many times and yet we blame
                                Unaware of Thy form, ever flowing time.   
  
               6)             Our miseries to Thee we attribute
                               Our victories ourselves we proudly claim
                               We roll in trivial pleasures, no noble aim ;
                               And if we fail, we curse our destiny mute

               7)            Unaware of Thy omnipresence
                               We do so many sins losing our sense
                               Our origin forgot, from whom and whence
                               We feel the woes of hellish ignorance.

               8)             Without Thy grace, oh Lord ! Our life is nothing
                                In every form Thy glory shines so bright
                                Our sense-bound soul can’t see Thy might
                                We cling to our vain pleasures as everything.

               9)              Our earthly bonds long-lasting we deem
                                About Thy selfless Love, we never thought
                                We turn to Thee, disillusioned when all is lost
                                Our lives mere shades before Thy eternity supreme.

 
            10)                Behind my breath and flowing blood you dwell                                                                           My eternal soul mate since creation ;
                                 We did forget Thy touch losing discrimination
                                 Enslaved like beasts by surrounding magic spell.

            11)               Even in death you show compassion sweet
                                Uplifting us from worldly woes and bonds
                                Thy mercy shines like a soothing angel beyond
                                Thy motherly clasp we sense as You lovingly greet.

            12)               Only Thy grace to break this Maya’s role
                                Only Thy grace to cross this magic maze
                                Only Thy grace to curb this sensual craze
                                Only Thy grace and help to reach my ultimate goal.
                                          
                                        ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


          13th march, 2018                                                  Somaseshu Gutala
                                                  


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