Cleansing the Heart
Jodha Chandra Sanasam *
The traveler forced himself hard
to pull out his heart torn apart
from its adnexa and tissues around
disentangled from the corner of his chest
arteries veins nerves still adhered
dribbling with blood though,
he fumbled it in his hands
crushed crumpled sanguine.
His heart, stained with murky slush,
he began to cleanse it thorough
with soap from the rack in his head.
Those fellow travelers yelled,
'Stop! Stop! What a scene it is!
Ghastly, an act blashphemous!'
He returned his heart back prompt
in his chest at its original corner
before he could wash it complete.
The new heart half-cleansed,
its original owner, his chest,
did accept unsure of itself,
but felt they alienated to each other.
The traveler reckoned,
'In this human jungle dark
there is no space for a foothold,
this path with no visible side-lines
splashed with muddy turbid slush,
when a mouthful spittle is thrown out
my heart will become over laden
with dirt and oxidants one more time.'
He decided, 'Well, let the dirt come again,
let my heart be stained once more;
what's there, I will wash it afresh
I know now how I do about it.'
He wished he reached near the voice
that seemed to call him;
of which he surmised,
'There'll be no commands insubordinating there,
the living souls wouldn't kill each other
they won't glare hateful at each other.'
Thus the traveler continues his journey
along with the marching crowd
he knows he has to move with the masses
he wished he could undertake his journey alone
but he was not sure of his destination;
he is still in pursuit of the source of the voice
in the dark thickets of human jungle.
'Yes in the milieu, in the dark jungle
I got to march unsure of myself',
he muttered to his own self.
* Poem written by Prof Jodha Chandra Sanasam for Hueiyen Lanpao (English Edition)
This poem was webcasted on July 20, 2014.
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