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MAHATMA GANDHI
January 30, 1948
A darkness drifts across the winter sun.
And in the groping mind a numbing grief;
Yet for ourselves we weep, because the one
Fixed star of love shaming our faint belief
No longer shines for us, nor will again
The strident fears loosed by atomic lords
Be answered by a frail and naked man
Shielded by soul-force and by peaceful words.
But even as we weep an echo falls
Across the years: "If I be lifted up ..."
What if the Son of Man still stands and calls
His brother men to drink love's poignant cup?
"I will draw all men." So may Gandhiji,
Released from earth, lead us to unity.
Winifred Rawlins
