The Blood of Caesar
- Deep from the Soul -
K. Radhakumar *
I slept like a log
And woke to a honeyed morning.
Happiness sang inside me
And this silent monologue of happiness
Stirred my wife from sleep.
Not a welcoming smile it was
To my wife
And she looked sleepy;
She turned around and slept
(Without even trying to get to sleep)
Completely divorced from the reality
My lovely and warm morning.
I felt separated for a split second!
A husband-and-wife team
Getting on well together
As total strangers;
The whole business of begetting children
Breathing in and breathing out
Was suddenly a depressingly familiar act
Done as a matter of routine.
It was a scene from the history of mankind
Enacted by the two
Juxtaposed on a mahogany bed
And the play was frighteningly surreal.
NEWS DIGEST:
Visitors walk inside a see-through church
on a hilltop in Bargloon, 80-km east of
Brussels. The church is made of rusty steel
beams separated by gaps, and its austere
beauty won it an international architecture
prize. But the eerie desolation of the
installation has also turned into a reflection
on the state of Roman Catholicism on a
religion weary continent where real churches,
like the dozen dotting the hills of this verdant
area, increasingly lose their flock and function.
The clock chimed eight.
Bread and butter and eggs.
A carton of orange juice.
Breakfast!
Break fast after the night's sleep.
'What shall we have for lunch?'
'I'll eat anything.'
'Meat, fish, vegetables – you name it,
I'll cook.'
'If I had the choice,
I would go for chicken curry
Served with rice.'
I couldn't think of a life
Without the society of others.
I couldn't I couldn't.
I wish I knew what was going to happen.
No e-relationship, please.
e-love!
Oh, no!
e-children!
Certainly not.
Caesar died in 44B.C.
Not much of a stab wound to his chest
But of a sudden stab of pain in his heart
Caused by the annihilation of friendship
The destruction of human relationship.
* Poem written by K. Radhakumar which was published at Hueiyen Lanpao (English Edition)
This poem was webcasted on April 15 2013.
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