To the Heights

The two worlds are cloven apart
And a chasm yawns between,
The deluding midworld that with its lurid shadow
Divides Heaven and Earth!

But one day they shall come close
And the lightning fire leap out
To consume the shadow track
And turn it into the gleaming path
For Heaven to descend upon earth.

(Nolini Kanta Gupta, A poem from ‘To The Heights’, Translated from French – ‘Vers Les Hauteurs’, Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry)