Poetry Is Capturing The Mystery
By Shrinivási
poetry is capturing the mystery
in the brittle shell of language
is dis-covering God and Goodness
freeing them from a rampant darkness
acutely you realize
how near heaven can be
in a singular second you see revealed
happiness, joy and beauty
a tributary you are, a dark creek
where at high tide the sea comes rushing in
shoreless you are, unbounded
touching the ends of the earth
bordering on the threshold of heaven
full, immensely full of life
within this promising land
you can find fulfillment and joy
in spite of the ignorant, the blind
who fight a desperate battle
against calendars, the world, the sun
but that will not offer a bridge to the future
he who oppresses someone by fear
will perish in a landslide of despair
will be drowned in a vortex of doubts
and end up lonely on the shore of death
become what a man was in the beginning
what a man still looks at with endearment
