I AM NOT ALONE

GIVE ME A CROSS
I am not alone in sanctity's embrace;
Nor singled out for divine grace;
Grant me a Cross!
Neither the opulent nor destitute;
Neither sovereign nor a beggar's pursuit;
Grant me a Cross!
I am not the alpha nor omega's kin;
Eternal in essence, regardless of life's spin;
Grant me a Cross!
In innocence slept, within mother's womb;
In a humble village, I found life's bloom;
Grant me a Cross!
Son of a mother's beauty, yet fate's whim;
Thrown to the lanes, amid the chaos grim;
Grant me a Cross!
Someone parted my veiled eyes' veil,
Nurtured my essence with tender prevail;
Grant me a Cross!
Through tempests of time, I tread;
Scaling peaks and valleys spread;
Grant me a Cross!
Strangers' blows for others' wrongs I bore;
Sowed seeds of good, yet hunger's roar;
Grant me a Cross!
WILLIAMSJI MAVELI 
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