THE NEWS TODAY

for Meher Baba's 110th Birthday

                I.
The news today
Is still bogus:

We seek evil
Outside ourselves,

We foul our planet
With our own wastes.
 
Las Vegas hedges
Bets on our survival,

But life goes on 
For another day
Of illusory Time
In illusory Creation.

            II.

In news within
You kneel, Silent
In Your Samadhi.

It's already Your 110th
Birthday in some places.

The River of Thought
That separates us
Flows unceasingly
From its unending source

Amid the glaciers
Breaking off somewhere
Deep in the frozen
Mountains of Unconscious
Ego. But another river

Joins the River of Thought,
And this, the River 
Of Remembrance of You,
Helps all thought find its way
To the Ocean of Release.

I stand
On the other side
Of these merged rivers,
Bowing to YOU,

And sometimes,
For a moment,
I am right 
Beside YOU,
At YOUR FEET.