Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
I know you will not come to me again
But I am grateful for the holy pain
That you have left to me: this gift of flame
To me who now to you am but a name.
I thank you for this fiery gift of tears–
My lonely garden of the coming years
Will blossom into one last tree of light
Watered by tears shed at the dead of night.
Lo! I am of the dead! I am a tomb
Heavy with the deepest solitude and gloom,
But should you pass me by one sudden hour
The tomb will break for you into a flower.
Reprinted from ‘Triveni’, Sept.-Oct. 1929