Why Do These Tears Fall Suddenly Now

You are as a brother to me,

and it pleases me to love you as one,

you tirelessly post statements, I send you poetry,

both of us are serving Hanuman.

I feel so internally this bond, HD,

why else should this verse interrupt me at prayer!

I know this eternally between two such as we,

I stop at merging, the better to behold your face the more.

Sitting with you alone, on this ancient temple ground,

our inner ear full of the sacred timeless Sound –

our outer ear bombarded by chattering monkeys all around.

I am absorbed as are you; I could embrace,

draw the world into my bosom like Amma –

or a mother hen, as Jesus lamented Jerusalem;

I could outrun horses with Jap Sahib on my lips,

sword at my hip, in the service of Gobind Singh.