Sunday, June 26, 2011

'Me' and 'Space'


Behold!
My foot steps....
Behind me
And before me!
Have I been here before?
No recollection!
Unawareness of a deepening Blankness.
A masked being?
Only but the ghostly steps,   
Here and there I see.
Was I here?
Me?
Or was it some one else?
Or some one else like 'Me'?
Whose foot steps are these?
And those?
And those too!
Where have I been?
Wondering?
Did I know the way,
When I passed this space?
Or is this the same place?
Was it the same 'Me' and same 'Space'
or
A same but different 'Me'
In the same but old 'Space! 
(But, is there some one really called 'Me'?)
Then,
Who ever and where ever I may be;
Do I know
Where I go, right now?
With my foot steps following me and walking in advance........
Here I am,

Standing and wondering,
Not accepting, 
or deliberately forgetting, 
With no attempt to understand........
That 'Lost' is the word that I should be applying!
For this invisible puzzle of 'Me' and 'Space'.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Blue and the Demon


Why Blue?
Who painted thee in Blue?
Are you really the Demon?
Or Caliban?
Painted in our eyes by Prospero?
Or Othello Perhaps?
Colour washed by the Dramatist himself!
Which one is blue?
I cannot tell you apart!
The demon, Caliban and Othello.
Blue or is it black?
The colour…..
Painting the bright Lucifer in dull Blue!
Being artistic I guess:
Just a different skin………….
Well…..All the Demons are Blue (or Black?)
Do I see any crudeness?
No…..guess it’s just my eyes.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

On Parting.......

When you are in this deadly slumber,
Dressed in pure white
With pearls around your smooth neck:
Reflecting my tear drops.
I envy your white cloths,
Dim light and dark silence
Which have become closer to you
More than I had ever been.
Shameless jealousy,
Inside my poor heart;
About the milky silks
That have created a so long a gap
Between you and I.

When the shovels dig
In short black cracks,
The monstrous earth
Opens widely his reddish mouth
To drag in
The Only; the one and only source
That could lighten my soul.

Alas! Pardon me
For envying the slimiest worm
That will be on her smooth body:
Unlike me,
Struggling with our memories
Back home, all alone.

People drop in and out,
Some wonder how quickly she had gone.
And some more preaching
That once I myself have foolishly done.
But how hard it is……
When reality thrusts itself so hard upon one,
How hard when it dawns…..
How deep and painful is the wound.

Hail Brutus!

Thy Knife;
Its wrath and laughter,
Poisoned dictator blood.
Brutus,
In thy womb;
Blooms the child of equality,
Fathered by democracy.
Anthony! 
Thy words for a second,
Held the power that made Blinded Civilians
Lament His death; the justifiably unjust murder!
He stands for Empire not for Cleopatra!
The Empire fathered by an Emperor.
Thy murder;
The death of an Empire but freedom of an entire world.
I do not say "Y Thu Brute?"
But say; "You are Brutus!"