Wednesday, November 9, 2011
DEATH OF A BEGGAR
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
DEATH OF A BEGGAR
[Experience: Saw a DEAD Beggar at the crossed -Road ,Karol Bag, DELHI in winter ,1962 '. The poem was composed between 65--'66 ]
Alas ! ---Oh GOD ----
how to console you !
Your failed creative effort ---- now itself so ashamed
and printed on the dead-open eyes , ---of the beggar Dead !
DEATH OF A BEGGAR
[Experience: Saw a DEAD Beggar at the crossed -Road ,Karol Bag, DELHI in winter ,1962 '. The poem was composed between 65--'66 ]
Alas ! ---Oh GOD ----
how to console you !
Your failed creative effort ---- now itself so ashamed
and printed on the dead-open eyes , ---of the beggar Dead !
Yet the man was born , in human -way !
Even the stray- dog in front of a 'Paan-Shop'
is wagging it's tail to the indulgence of shop-keeper
And that beggar , now dead , could not get even a little of that !
And what pleasure did YOU derive, -tell
By snapping off his tail in THY Evolutionary - PLAN !
After his struggling life to survive
in -spite- of
insects , mosquitoes or rain
and the indifferent , adverse civilized world
now paid back all his dues -to you
through his last i pay off
insects , mosquitoes or rain
and the indifferent , adverse civilized world
now paid back all his dues -to you
through his last i pay off
his breath and silent HEART
exhaling out his last breath
as 'REPAID !
exhaling out his last breath
as 'REPAID !
And I was there and witnessed it
______________________________
In his final DEATH, all his unpaid credit-dues --- repaid in full !
Betwix the partig lips --dry and dead
'PEACE ' that he never got in life, is resting now !
In puffing out of his final breath
and , now , he paid you back-the LIFE
that you gifted, knowing ,even - so fake !
The cold naked body ----lying stiff
while slammed and shut its doors ,--on your face
there I could see --all your creative Seasons, --summer, spring or rain
kicked out like UN-wanted guests, --from his ife.
And --
the leucodermic , leperous Day
refused by his indifferent -poise
or ,-even from his opaque- eyes
like kicked -out stray dog with tail , betwix legs
ran out of his way !
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Betwix the partig lips --dry and dead
'PEACE ' that he never got in life, is resting now !
In puffing out of his final breath
and , now , he paid you back-the LIFE
that you gifted, knowing ,even - so fake !
The cold naked body ----lying stiff
while slammed and shut its doors ,--on your face
there I could see --all your creative Seasons, --summer, spring or rain
kicked out like UN-wanted guests, --from his ife.
And --
the leucodermic , leperous Day
refused by his indifferent -poise
or ,-even from his opaque- eyes
like kicked -out stray dog with tail , betwix legs
ran out of his way !
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