POEM

(“I asked of Destiny...”)

by Rabindranath Tagore

                                                      XI

I asked of Destiny, “Tell me who with relentless hand pushes me on?”
Destiny told me to look behind.
I turned and saw my own self behind pushing forward the self in front.

This poem originally appeared in the June 1913 issue of Poetry.

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