Sunday, 22 June 2008

On the banks of Benaras





Without a loin to cover him up,

Just a stick to help,

Inhaling with utmost intent

The smoke of his God.



Days has he given up

The love for his life,

Sleeping on the ashes

His stick very close by.



Nobody turning towards him

Even to bother,

The smokey view manifests

The time for him to shudder.



The time for him to journey

Through the lands under spell,

Like a drowning pearl

In this world so knave.



Unfazed by soceity,

Like a firefly in the night sky,

Using its own faint light

To fly the shadowy 'Tundra'.



People take a dip

In the water so holy,

For him just a gaeity

Caressed by the chill.



Never feeling the raindrops

He so wishfully numb,

Not having to feel the incineration of hunger,

Not having to constrain his senses!



Like a sedentary cocoon,

Metamorphosed from a catterpillar,

Never wanting to remember those days

When soceity never conferred him a comforting healer.



The 'Rudraksha' reminded him

Of those who were so near.

Not having to leave them

But left in the hands of Death!



His life, a mere coral

In the deep blue ocean,

With the rays of the sun

Flickering with the brightest grace!



---- There's a long story associated with this... He haunted me everywhere, in dreams in real life, everywhere...

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