HERETIC

 

HERETIC

 

Rebellious unruly heart fumes, angry,

Burning tons of oil sandal sticks,

Incense fragrant incense intensely,

Tell me divine wishes only cosmetics,

Sandal paste-covered stone idols,

Garland scented decorated lovely,

Silent eyes mute behold devotees,

Stood folded hands scrutinized too,

Aghast to look at tears streaming,

Heartbroken spirits bent pleading,

Asking for mercy, letting suffering stop,

Stolen lives but sudden, astonished,

Death traps, steals, unsympathetic,

Fewer considerations for a lovely child,

Sole earning member youth perished,

Young is a widow long life ahead stark,

A lone woman and a few children embark,   

The ocean is life stormy, lady boating,

Uncertain every moment, as if sinking,

Rebellious against fate brute fate,

Immoral the mysterious life to hate,

Left at age advanced crippled couple,

Children forgetting their parents is simple,

Left to die unceremoniously, I doubt,

Lord, whether an ocean of mercy but,

Doubt the tall temple minarets flags,

Whose glory it sings human life sags,

No pretension repentance time moves,

Forgotten lost lives stories endless,

No solution fictions galore repudiate,

Lord is almighty to solve problems faced,

Abundant gift of love, care changes,

Life summersault from poverty to gold,

Swept my emotions, tears winking,

Lord, why are human faces devastated,

They loved O Lord and lifelong trusted,

Forgotten so soon when ill fate roasted,

Failed to stand erect, lost strength,

Crestfallen to watch plights of lives,

Cried that day silently before replying,

Your creation why disappears instantly,

Let floods flooding village fields ripe,

Destroyed in a few days, everything in sight,

Heart your abode in the heart of humans,

How come these lives got so cruel,

Kill, kill everything in sight outcry,

Beastly savagery visible a mockery,

Angry with my world left the temple,

Human conscience supreme felt rule,

A demon lives in our mind, anger burns,

Hatred fractured our race life churns,

How much we can hate to eliminate,

Lord, little inhibit, protect, intimate,

Sat alone think our future primitive,

Savage race verge of extinct restive,

O Lord, you know all and sarcastic,

Watch sprouts green leaf changed heretic! 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Heretic

Themes: Lord is sarcastic to a heretic

Written: 3rd August 2023, Cuttack

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