A Child’s Heart

As tall mountains watch over life’s crests and troughs
bellows of pain and laughter all the same
never flinching in its face

You are that silent ridge
presiding over a million streams
as they wash your gentle feet

In your watchful glance
is a mother’s love
reassuring a crying child

Oh You are the darling Mother
and the divine child Gopala all at once
caring for your herd

Armour-less yet your armour
are your words
the saber of truth is yours to wield

Those powerful brows
and compassion weaved
in every graceful lift each loving tilt

What are worries to you
but a cloud of dust settled in a blink
of your piercing gaze

Oh such holiness flows
from the palms of your crimson hands
subduing fears tears gone unnoticed far too long

O innocent One
You are Bhagwan’s beloved child
your sacrifices unparalleled

O mighty Kailasa
from your stillness emanate
a billion blessings for the ignorant mind

Quietly You breathe
like a gentle hermit on the banks of the Ganges
ever in bliss

The halo of your radiance
its kind luminescence
spreading across skies and continents

In your truthful self
is the salvation of millions like me
for a child’s heart I see in everything You do and be

As billions of planets form and fall
and time runs on its feet
You are the only constant O innocent One