Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Human life : Wavering in the Breeze and Flickering in the Wind: I was moved by Ranjitha’s Poem

Dear Sakthi, for your queries

On Death and Destruction,

Let me extensively quote a verse

Composed by Ms.G.Ranjitha Mary some time ago

On her twin loss, first the

Brother soaked into the vortex of the unknown

On the university campus road, while riding on motor cycle

Then her beloved mother breathing last

On a national highway - at midnight car accident

By the cruel and wicked fate.

She’s the only surviving heir;

Fully shattered, bemused and blindfolded by fate

Ranjitha has touched the bottomless pit of suffering

Of agony and despair, at a tender age.

Yet, she’s stubbornly very strong, more

Defiant like a vibrant Sun,

Carrying on with candour, courage and conviction

Having faith in the goodness of the universe

Without having any rancor to anyone

Shall we listen to Ranjitha, now :

“Human Life is precisely fragile

Like the thinnest thread of pure silver

Wavering in the breeze

Like the tinest flame

Flicking in the wind.

Not once but twice has a thread been cut

A flame blown out

Once for a brother much loved and adored

Once for a mother, sweet heart for all

But human life is defiant

As mine now is

I will survive, I know, I can

Shine as purely as silver can

Blaze as brightly as fire does

Until my thread is cut

My flame blown out .”

Sakthi, death does not discriminate between the

Young and old, good and bad, ugly and beautiful,

Scholar and stupid, the arrogant and mild,

But evil minds soaked into dirt and meanness

Make everything politics and trivialize the

Untimely tragedy, unwilling or unable to

Participate in a fellow human’s suiffering

Kindly note Sakthi , the departed soul was an exalted one :

More kinder , and nobler , more benevolent towards society

And more involved at the campus quarters and outside

She has lived her full life with love and gratitude,

With infinite love towards humanity, at large.

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