Not of religion

Monday, August 22, 2005

Three poems one after the other

Three poems one after the other

I
My life:
Like graffiti, free, unbridled, spilling all over
Like tattoos
Worn like fine frills of fashion.
And searching for the distilled essence
Lost in the gutters of a full life.
I want to dip this city in the
Holy junction of such gutters,
-Won’t that be like a dip in the holy Ganga?
Then I will exchange my remaining life
With a borrowing from the Almighty’s bank.
Doesn’t matter if I am a believer or not;
I am the one deriding, after strangling myself.

II
I am going to start on the last great journey:
After reciting a hymn to life
And trampling upon the mother of truth and untruth
And keeping Parikshit in balance.
Let the day break, where it will.

III
On my breast
Crowds mill to push the Juggernaut
And jostle on the Hajj pilgrimage.
And me? Am the tiny Jerusalem.