India

Her journey took her to a place

Where smiles did sit on every face

Where long ago the Indus came

And so gave India her name

Softly shifting desert sands

And mountains that stood high on land

The setting sun at the end of day

Did form the most resplendent rays

The beauty of the mogul might

Most splendid in the sunset light

The people who outstretched their hand

To Goddess of a foreign land

The holy men did to her reach

And humility to her did teach

To love herself, as she must do

Is what would make her pure and true

The flowing Ganges, like the Nile

Did often make the Goddess smile

She saw how humans came to cleanse

And then be blessed by holy men

Richness, like she’d never seen

Did make so wide, the eyes of Queen

Yet t’was the poor that touched her heart

And from them that she could not part

With them, she found inner peace

And from her sadness some release