OCEAN’S HUNGER

 

SACHI RAUT ROY

 

Ocean’s arms will not recede

until the reverine

frame

is broken

into smithereens

in its mighty fold

and dissolved

in its green ego.

 

There, in a Corner

sat her gods

wearing tragedy’s face.

Their vacant looks

neither warm nor cold.

They know not

what is love

or hatred,

for they are not of human flesh.

They only trod

the destiny’s frozen path

which is neither new nor old,

and surely smaller

than man’s dimensions.

 

Together we can build a world

of empyrean songs,

of colour, odour and feel,

which no god can ever aspire,

for

they are not made of

bone and flesh,

they are just what we think they are,

born of our ephemeral desires

or of the collective will,

in the backdrop of eternity

that knows no change.

 

They move and act

with a permissive smile.

They are the sad profile

of our dreams

classified,

in a sick sick society.

 

Freedom is the essence

of our being,

the breath of our life

and our becoming.

I pine for her

every moment.

Only she can bring

Life’s fulfilment

in freedom’s ample measures,

for

she contains the quality

of love and its splendours

of head and heart.

She is that

heavenly bird the song of the wings

that is the ‘thing-in-itself’

and the ‘thing-to-be.’

 

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