Collected Poems - Sri Aurobindo Ashram

324 Calcutta and Chandernagore, 1907 – 1910
Kama
(According to one idea Desire is the creator and sustainer of
things, — Desire and Ignorance. By losing desire one passes
beyond the Ignorance, as by passing beyond Ignorance one
loses desire; then the created world is surpassed and the soul
enters into the Divine Reality. Kama here speaks as Desire
the Creator, an outgoing power from the Bliss of the Divine
Reality to which, abandoning desire, one returns, ānanda ˙m
brahman. ovidvān, possessing the bliss of the Brahman.)
O desolations vast, O seas of space
Unpeopled, realms of an unfertile light,
Grow multitudinous with living forms,
Enamoured of desire! I send My breath
Into the heart of being, and the storm
Of sweet attraction shall break up its calm
With quivering passionate intensity
And silence change to a melodious cry,
And all the world be rose. Out of My heart
Suns shall flame up into the listless void,
And the stars wheel in magic dances round
Weaving the web of mortal life. For I
Am love, am passion; I create the world.
I am the only Brahma. My desire
Takes many forms; I change and wheel and race,
And with Me runs creation. I preserve,
For I am Love. I weary of Myself,
And the world circles back into the Vast.
Delight and laughter walking hand in hand
Go with Me, and I play with grief and pain.
I am the dance of Krishna, I the dance
Of Kálí. Might and majesty are Mine,
And yet I make the heart a child at play,
The soul of things a woman full of bliss.
Hunger and Thirst, arise and make the world!