Have always come to me
Holding hands
For all these years
I’ve welcomed the profound
Into the crucible of my life
And dealt with the profane
By ignoring it then berating it
And then ridiculing it
With each supercilious
Thought and action
I lost something I couldn’t identify
It felt like Life sometimes
Sometimes like Love
And I never could tell which was the case
I hadn’t known
I was to alchemize the pair of them
To hear the punch line to
The Cosmic Joke
~ Sonali
