GO GLOBAL

Earn to burn in the urns of desires.
Eat - drink - sleep - (xxxx) - make merry
And drain the sap in the gutter holes,
which overflow to meet the dump yard
of the sea and add on the heaps
of unwanted generation; Chant. Chant
The global mantra of ilu*, ilu, ilu!
Does one live by food alone?
Or in a metropolitan nightmare
breathe some fresh air!


Mumbai [29-07-03]

(*ilu: I love you.)


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WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE

Water, water, water everywhere –
on paper, silver screen and computer –
but not even a drop to nurture.
In the desert sand dunes where
a soul sustains on moisture in air,
but a mind here chases mirages everywhere.
In the twilight zone of the poles
where dolphins go merry making,
its cosy igloo waiting for sunrise.
In my Sahyadri’s jungle, vanishing
now under your rule, it pours and runs,
blesses everyone on its way.
In your urban jungle it’s imprisoned
in conventions, released by taps
and packages that I can’t afford.
I never knew how it manipulates
me, my culture and my relation
with everything, in sublime silence,
from grasses lowly to gods – to air,
never knowing love is yet another
name of water that contains fire.


Mumbai [27-02-2003]


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An Eyesore

The lowest of the lowly
Spring up in the blind eye
Of the metropolis of gold
– a capillary action.

Mumbai [03-09-03]


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GROWING TREE – GROWING MIND

A growing tree balances
in time and space;
It’s many branches, leaves,
flowers, petals and fruits,
in harmonious whole.
A walking body seeks balance,
but a growing mind:
A product of the Class culture
justifies its multiple splits,
lies to itself, a life in deceit.


[14-07-2003] Mumbai




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