Gitanjali Roy
That body is just a dust.
The soul roaming on earth
Is free elemental and pure?
Because
The panch tatwa
May be atomically rich
But what about the
Elemental love?
Is not it more atomically pure
Than panch tatwa?
That has existence
But
Love
Beyond existence
Thus more pure, purer........
You wanna go to
the synagogue of crop.
I wanna go on the other hand
to the synagogue of heart.
You wanna praise
the humbling silence.
That deafens me instead.....
I wanna be silent
when the roaring crowd
claps for the departing soul.
You praise the Zion of water bead?
Oh the ants are a bead for me
Cause when the excess water oozed out of the grave
the atoms had a thirst for the bloody passion.
I wanna pray like the shadow of a sound
Because that sound reaches me throw Twitter Facebook and Insta.
Those wanna be stationed in the least valley
Wearing Hamlet's black sackcloth
For beyond 100 days.
Welcomed!
I wanna practice the blaspheme
Writing an elegy in your name.
I wanna feel those hot breath on screen
When the fog freezes to deny the death
Of that roohdar soul, of the dead
Robed with London's daughter of the fire, now.....
I deny not to mourn against the written elegy.
Dear Dylan,
we are envious
For you are dinning with the Khan
While we are still mourning for that's done!
The lunchbox in hand
Waiting for the letter,
Looking at the jungle
Waiting for the Pi of hope,
Blood in hand
Waiting for Haider to hug back,
Ask the protruding eyes
To just have a romantic date
With the Satan of the Heaven....
And you would justify, even that onscreen.
Yes!
He indeed did prove-
Let him reign on screen, if slave be mine address in thy heart of Heaven!
The man of 6 feet
Is smaller than life
Because he reigns like
A prism amidst all Khans.....
{Note:- There is intertextual reference to Dylan Thomas’ Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of
a Child in London (1914-53).}
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Poet Gitanjali Roy
works as Asstt. Professor, English Dept., ICFAI University,
Tripura and is pursuing her PhD on Digital Literature.
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