Jiddhu Krishnamurti (1895 - 1986)

Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Pool of Wisdom

THREE POEMS

COME AWAY

As many scores of rivers
Enter into the sea,
So the understanding of the world
Has come unto me.
An immense longing
Is born unto me.
An aching love
Is burning my heart,
A passionate desire
Is consuming my being.

Come away,
Come away,
O world,
From thy changing sorrows,
From thy dying love.
I have found the way.

Come away,
Come away,
O world,
From thy little gods,
From the interpreters thereof.
I have found the way.

Come away,
Come away,
O world,
From thy fleeting passions,
From thy decaying achievements,
I have found the way.

Come away,
Come away,
O world,
From thy prison of pain,
From the keepers thereof.
I have found the way.

Come away,
Come away,
O world,
From thy burning desires,
From the agonies thereof.
I have found the way.

Come away,
Come away,
O world,
From the false,
From the burdens thereof.
I have found the way.

Come away,
Come away,
O world,
From thy kneeling,
From the holding of thy sad hands.
The temple walls be falling.
I have found the way.

Come away,
Come away,
O world,
For all things perish,
Though thy soft tears
Wash away thy memories.
I have found the way.

Seized am I
With a burning passion
To free thee
From thy cage,
For I have found the way.

The bird is on the wing,
And his voice fills my heart.
The vast firmament,
The limitless space Enfold me.

I am thy Lover,
I am thy Teacher,
Renounce all
And follow me,
For my way
Is the way of Liberation.

Come,
Come away,
O love,
Sit beside me,
I will teach thee
The way to Happiness.