À l’heure du tout à l’image et du buzz sans suite, «l’express» souhaite faire découvrir la plume de poètes, de chanteurs, d’écrivains et de tous ceux qui jettent leur âme sur le papier, et qui mettent en mots des réflexions profondes.

Oh my Lord, so far away in the sky,

Yet immersed close in my heart and my eye,

I yearn to kiss the dust from your pink feet,

A petal from your lotus shrine to greet.

I long for a drop of milk of your grace

And each one of your footprints to embrace,

Sweep the soil ahead of the path you tread

Blow off from me all particles of dread.

Oh Lord, my humble prayer at your shrine

Is to assuage my sharp pains over time,

Let them silently fade in the cool air

Under the luminous glow of your care.

I submit myself to your divine will

To elevate me from the earthly chill,

Relieve my acute suffering and strains

And deliver me from the cyclic chains.

I thirst to bathe in your ocean of love,

Relish from your flute, sweet tunes of the dove,

Reap but one gleam of your sparkling beauty,

Sip just one glow of your eternity.

At day’s end, I crave to merge with your Whole,

Lost eternally in the Supreme Soul,

Serve you with all my heart through time and space,

Taste but one drop of nectar of your grace.

May just one drip from your lake of kindness

Fill my breast with your perfume of sweetness,

That pervades the entity of your shrine

And infuses the universe with your shine.

My earnest prayers for a humble lee,

My supplications and my sincere plea

To lie awhile in shade of Vrindavan,

To wash your pink heels, my Madhusudan,

This Vrindavan, the seedbed of your youth,

Divine realm of Radharani, in truth,

Where the Yamuna flows with silver grace

And carves an eternal heavenly space.

Written 17 September 2026 from the bed of a private clinic

Bio

Krishnanand Guptar

Former Financial Secretary and Financial Adviser at the Ministry of Finance, he has published several collections of poems, namely “Between Earth and Sky” (1975), “From Humanism to Spirituality” (2021), “Spirituality and Beyond” (2023), and “Sir Anerood Jugnauth – The Life and Legacies of a Great Soul” (2023). More of his poems can be accessed on Poetry Soup.