If You Are,
You Will My Brother Be
If you believe in
A Great Architect,
And only if;
If you are a man
Good and true
And live God’s chosen paths;
If you weep at a man’s woes
And his pain is your pain;
His anguish needs
You carefully soothe:
If the moons no more
Your ambition keep
Or at least the direction know;
If the hard and stony path
Is but behind
And not ahead of you;
If your job, its satisfaction done,
And life’s a plateau,
Life its stillness bore:
If you have loved
And all the joys of love,
Mellowed to its highest heights;
If life’s eternal lesson learned
And have been rewarded
With God’s gifts of joy and blessings;
If you have the heart and soul,
And the precious hours
To share this joy with other fellowmen:
If within you, lies a heart
That stirs for more,
And you know not why;
If you ask questions
That gives no answers;
Why, what or who am I:
If you ask,
Is life a tireless search
With no end?
Then, time is right,
My good fellow,
You are
And you will, my brother be.
-Lalkumar
