Monday, September 30, 2013

To the one who wouldn't write

Have you died of shame lately ?
Felt helpless, betrayed and raped lately ?
Have you taken a local bus with your loved one , or perhaps
Strayed into an abandoned mill lately ?
No?
But have you read the papers recently?
Or
managed to catch that breaking news while having lunch in the cafeteria lately?
Or
Perhaps catch the alert on that recently downloaded app
on your over smart over sized over priced over hyped phone ?
No?
Have you been violent lately?
Do you think you were right?... or left?
Have you watched porn and gambled with your sperm recently?
Have you counted cards and periods recently?
No?
Have you been social on the book of faces lately ?
tagged your friends on that picture of you on Maslow's hierarchy lately?
No?
Good!
But have you been impacted by the falling rupee, rising inflation, falling sensex,rising onion prices, falling necklines, rising hemlines lately?
Have you seen your reflection on an ATM screen recently?
Have you written anything lately?

Monday, September 9, 2013

A less than silent Prayer

Faith I bring on rent,
for I have none.
Hyacinth, Hibiscus,Lotus, Orchids,
Frankincense and Vermillion I offer
for the Shaman said so.
Ancient Mandala I sketch and
Mantra I whisper for 40 days and 41 nights
to Pagan Gods.
21 grams of soul I pawn
against 30 pieces of silver
for Iscariot.

 Then cross legged I sit on a carpet, Persian,
 in the oldest Synagogue in this decadent city
and my sins I confess in Aramaic, Hebrew, Latin, Sanskrit and Arabic.
 Just so the gods may know that I am but flesh,
but blood I will draw
should any less than fortune befall
my expression - Lyric or
my beloved wild flower - Mahua.