Dilip Kumar Roy's Certitude (Click for RY Deshpande's & Sri Aurobindo's comments.)

In the ache of my night…
My waylost night…
Still gleams a lonely spark of memory
Of thy far delight:
An infant glow untamed by the dark sea
Nor quenched by the black wind’s might.

In the heart of my pain,
My muted pain,
Still floats a cadence: “Thou wilt come again…
No yearning is in vain.”
And on that day of thy Dawn’s wonder
Self-will’s legions shall surrender
To thy sun-laurelled Love for long denied…
By their fool pride.
Then they will sing: “No frail
Glimmers ever fail
When Light will prevail.”

16 December 1947