By Jullie Chaudhuri 

In the silence of the night…
…so too…
…during the hours that revel in daylight…
…through the din and noise…
…i could hear many a voice…
…oh…a most rhythmic recitation…
…a requisition…
…a golden invocation…
…that relentlessly pursued a resurrection…

Thus did all beings commune…
…craving divine indulgence…
…asking for a sole boon…
Come back…Come now…
Come, Beloved One,
Come home soon…

Through the quiet hush…
…through the calm stillness…
…this is what my heart did discern and assess…
…a unified appeal…a harmonious petition…
…it rang on and on through the Ether…
…imprints and impressions piercing through dimensions -
Hear our cry Beloved Sai…
Come soon…Come soon…Come home soon…

Wooing words…
…seeping through the bosom of Mother Earth…
…swirled and twirled by the eager wind…
…droplets from a stream so boundless…
…setting the environ ablaze…
…with a fiery brightness…
…a palpable ardor…
…seeming so profound and endless…
…which did my heart beats too…
…in sweet sync caress…

Such ardent devotion did the ambience stir…
…resolute sentiments that nothing could alter…
…reverentially placed upon the Cosmic Altar…
…a committed quest that requires an answer…
…a wholesome search that warrants a response…
…dreams that seek fulfillment…
…true longing that relentlessly pursues attainment…
…ultimate honour for the Supreme Advent…
…significant realization of every prophecy…
…and each magnanimous intent…

A mission wrought with stormy questions…
…statements…appeals…desires…
…similar expressions echo in every atom of creation…
…sans exception…
…invocations and aspirations…
…supplications to the Beloved One…
…a fusion of feelings…
…ebullient emotions steeped in devotion…
…a sublime composition…
…reverberating a collective participation…
…from every being in creation…
…a spirit of joyous amity…
From the elements Five…
…so too,
…from the Mineral, Plant, Animal and Human spheres…
…then on…
…from celestial objects…stars and planets…
…a message blossoms in luminous expansion…
…a spontaneous inner compulsion…
…a reciprocal resonance…
…in the hearts of sages and saints…
…plants and trees……rivers and oceans -
Come soon…Come back…come home soon…

From each leaf…each blade of grass…
…each petal of every flower…
…that sought celebration…
…at the touch of the Lotus Feet -
The only yearning that is true…
A yearning so true…we long for You…
Come soon…come soon…now, come soon……from hills and plains…
…rivers, lakes and oceans blue…
…beyond the barriers of language and speech…
…thriving affections that require no translation…
…a heartfelt summon…
…that sought consideration and compassion…
…a resounding refrain -
Come home…come home…come home soon…
…the only yearning that is true…
A yearning so true…we long for You…
…a luminescent yearning flowing…growing…
…glowing…glowing…glowing -

We long for You…
…we long for You…for we belong to You…
Such is the intensity of the worship…
…in the flowerets of longing…
…that are…
…at Your cherished Lotus Feet constantly strewn…
…it’s been too long…
…come now, come soon…
Indeed ever so momentous will be ‘that’ moment…
…an infinitely sacrosanct fortune…
…to be then eternally considered most opportune…
…come right away…
…accept this yearning as true…
…for we truly long for You…
Grant that gracious and bounteous boon,
Oh! Almighty Tribune…
Now, come soon…come soon…come back soon…