I am a river, frozen in the heart of the great glacier in distant mountain top,

with the first sun, I break her heart and start my journey.

Ah! the joy of breaking free! Forgetting the pain of the bleeding mother behind.

I dance, and break and flow down making a fall here and abandoning a channel there.

Would you blame me for breaking the frozen embrace, oh my awestruck visitor?

I give and I take, may be more, I kill and drown and am misery to so many of you,

But remember the time when you really needed to save your limbs and your child,

And how I nourished you? With my cool water filling your parched soul?

Have you ever felt oh Human! Sitting at the top of evolution or whatever you may call it,

How did I feel when I broke away from my mother, and when I abandoned my childhood friends

Atop of those lofty mountains? Have you ever thought how I felt when heavy with mud and guilt

I drowned your civilization, what crossed my mind? Did you ever see myself when you saw me

Finally reaching the sea and jumping with a sigh of relief thinking I end my journey there, for eternity?

And then the sun comes again metamorphosing my cursed soul, lifting me to the same mountain i

Left a century ago? Joy I feel finding myself in my mother’s womb knowing a mighty journey awaits.

motherhood

i look at the ancient temple with my young eyes wide open,
the image of the Goddess bending over with her overwhelming breast.
i ask the priest with childish innocence and he tells me the reason.
she is the mother of the world, nurturing and nourishing all with her breast.
and hence the image of motherhood, femininity gets ingrained in my mind.
i wonder does she need a big breast to contain the love for all?
i grow up everyday, feeling i can too nourish and nurture but fear the lack of body parts
and tell myself motherhood is not an instinct but just genetics and a pair of breasts.
and then my friend i meet you, in a far off land, not a priest, far from it actually,
and you say a thing a simple thing, i do not need to be a woman to be a mother.
how utterly simple it is that it becomes profound and breaks my slumber.
now i know,your chromosomes might let your grow beard or bleed every month,
but now i refuse to be a chemical reaction, with predetermined outcome.

i had a thought, carefully wrapped in few words, for you,
thoughts that might take a century or a day to reach.
it will scale the mountains and swim the waters,
and still remain unspoken forever.

now i hear words travel fast,
passing through metal wires and the space,
is that why so much is spoken every day,
but still it remains so dry! so empty!

when tonight everyone leaves me, my Love stay here.
light the lamp with your touch which was hidden forever,
fill my life with the lonely fragrance of the wild forest flower,
and stay back with me when everyone leaves me tonight.
when the night ends and the day brings promise of companionship
when a new light shines outside fading the light within me
and i run behind the thousand glitters that will fade soon anyway,
stay back deep in my heart oh my Love, when everyone leaves me.