BIJAYANANDA MISHRA

 

CLIFFHANGER

 

The beginning;

The saga of rejection a spirit vows rare,

The realm in the ecstasy of dreams joy share,

The paradise on earth myriads of bondage,

The tears smile fun sweet in pain in phase,

Sorrow worries fear do torture mind silence,

Swap life for pleasure peace state luminance,

Childhood youth, adult family life in stages,

Thrills temptations in study career knowledge,

Birds of the same feathers fly in sky hopes sail,

Bondage new generation common rolls on the rail,

 

The REDEMPTION in prison,

One bird cross, fly over cliff wall for the realm,

Never returns to greens surrender to the unknown,

The intense urge in mind a detached heart,

Love solitude silence nature with self-effort,

Rejection to childhood, parents’ attachment,

School life book friends game n fun lament,

The sweet home pull extreme cut off, link,

Moves sudden distant destination wink,

The path never traveled every feet sink,

Temptations of human life whisper in love,

O’ soul human life the rarest pious involve,

Duty to parents aging community waits,

Human responsibility lies life procreate,

Family children new hope for the future,

Wife or husband is rarest love suture,

Never take steps to cut off the thread of life,

Emancipation treads on a flower, not on the knife,

Every step does listen, feet on thorn a test,

Sorrow pain illness hunger strike anger infest,

Peace calmness vanquishes at the conjugal nest,

Return home shed dejection won life n breed,

Freedom lies, in essence, serve people a seed,

Entices bondage of life stuff human love,

Ascetic acerbic mind turn mute call dissolve,

Fragile limbs move ahead far from humanity,

Climb stiff curves of the pedestrian path to the cliff,

 

REDEMPTION enamor free of bondage;

Hunger weakness hunted frame severe in cold,

The inert body lays still thought with wings of fire,

Hover on the cliff in state cliffhanger sunlight gold,

Heart turn detached eyes closed mind in surrender,

Wreck my soul O’ lord I seek you as goal secure,

You can destroy this mortal frame not me,

Liberate from this dungeon spirit deathless I mean,

In footpath days pass in the first test of mind,

Immense energy freshness in life return rekindles,

Slopes bend hairpin higher to altitude in devotion,

A human spirit uncommon climb, distant commotion,

Mind in quest of unknown creator invisible,

Life in silence lonely nature care permissible,

 

REDEMPTION on the precipice;

Alas, the traveler sleeps in meadows green carpet,

Stars in night turn bed lamp gentle breeze swept,

Moonlight cool caress a divine frame firefly hymn,

Morning rays warm pinch to awaken soul shine,

Cliff fountain cool clear nourishes thirst heart,

Nature covers shelter spirit in elements in the dirt,

Know the detached soul’s mind now a fortress,

Brings damsels new infinite beauty to impress,

Captured in temptation spirit slips on a slope,

Back to amorous people trembles sagging hope,

Not all spirits have the destiny to die in ascension,

Continue to rise high in path with rejection,

Next stage come fear hunted manifold cruel,

Great O’ soul by calm mind prayer luminous swell,

Dispels darkness fear acts on ignorance well,

Light of soul the sole knowledge inner crumble quell,

 

REDEMPTION concludes cliffhanger;

The time of final hour trials crumpled by will,

Spirit finds path terminates at top of the cliff,

The horizon Lord’s paradise extends infinite,

The soul witness impassion standstill,

Down at one side mundane world of joy in pain,

Another side gentle slope flower beds fountain,

Almighty shines brighter than Sun yet soothes,

The spirit leaves the limbs like bird moves,

The ultimate state of soul death must die,

The illusion of earth to the seer looks in owe,

The cliffhanger climax to realization divine saw.