Wednesday, October 20, 2010

“Oh Unmerciful God! Thank you” -III

Oh! An unmerciful God,

You were so cruel enough to deny

Even minimal time to pray and cry

For your divine intervention to

Save your own ardent discipline

But my Lord, I shall not

Forget your benevolence,

Your hard hearted grace,

In bringing my parents I love

To cry with arms around me

At that time on that fateful day

Thank you Lord! Thank you.

Like dhobis dipping the clothes

In water and then beating them

On the stone in the river bed,

Rhythemacially, continually, and forcefully

I have been beaten now,

But never will be torn by much needed welcome tears;

Shattered, beyond repair, through,

I ‘ll survive more defiantly,

Not yielding to depression and despair.

Goats are not like clothes,

Can they be dipped into water,

Beaten on the stone and

Thrown on the bank dry?

Certainly not.But an ancient

Mythological story talks about

This naïve act of one foolish fellow

While proceeding to marry a girl

By sprinkling turmeric, proved

The scattered flesh and the

Bones of washed goats,

Could be brought back to life;

Goats there did come to life bleating

Here I must live and labor through life crying

By thinking and forgetting, all good and

Bad memories,

The ashes of memories of the past

Allow me to have a full cry now.

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