(On seeing the victims / ravages of
violence
in conflict zones- Iraq & Kashmir, on TV.
)
me me
take me
out of the zoo
today
said the voices in
unison
– grunt, as if, from
one pipe
– mimicked, as if, by
one mime.
the dark entrails
of night convulsed
and let out
the ferocity of
plural faces
into the jungle-world
for depredation ---.
chased by the Frankenstein-phobia
the star-run-amok
scurried westwards
---
dropping behind
Frankincense and myrrh; in its trail.
you guessed it
right
it was my birth
(to which no visitors or Harrods
heeded).
the fangs of
hyena
and blood-shot eyes of lion
viper’s hiss and eagle’s swoop
A-L-L
imprint my mirrored form
in the ever abounding wild moments.
looking back in
thoughts
to the road
that travels
through so many
beastly loins
and rests where now
I exist
- my translucent shadow
subsumes them all,
although
h-e-r-e
I project
the shapely evening
suit
donned
for the Recitation Meet.
with so many
animals inside
where is the space left?
for the HUMAN SPIRIT
that is supposed to
inhabit
within
--- I begin to doubt
---
Yet
I wish to hear
a stirring from the
hide-out
--somewhere --
when I call him.
when a pain
groans
when a loss weeps
when the lantern of
pigeon- eyes
flickers in canine
gust
when a child
touches my hand, silently—
and looks up
searchingly
in my heart.
let the puss of
inheritance
read aloud to my
agape wounds
the Will of
Gargoyle-ism
-bequeathed by history
to the squandering present
-littered in NEWSPRINT
all around
and let
the cargo-less Ark
of my BEING
sail off smoothly
through the straits of tomorrow
till
DOVES sight
the land
beyond the ARARAT HILLS
of my Genes and Genesis
---
-where no god rules
over the empire of bones
with the wand of MYTHOLOGY
-where healers stand
with dinosaurs
in museum- glass
- where
lilting tunes of the brook
sing the song of innocence –
--
T_H_E_R_E ---
I wish to awake.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
( * = Note: Logo of the column depicted ‘ A Pen carried by winging
Pigeon: and wings looked like a pair of
human hands in supplication.)
***************************************************
By: S. Sarwar, in his
column *- ‘WRITE-MIND’
Sunday issue Kashmir
Observer dated 27 May 2007.
