The Election Trap
K. Radhakumar *
I have spent the whole day
Talking with my head
And not with my heart.
It is way past my bedtime
And I feel lousy
But the stream of thought
From no beginning to no end
And also with no logic to it
Does not send me to sleep.
The old desire to write a poem
A poem of life –
It is coming back,
It is coming back to me now.
Here it is,
The one and only poem of life!
The only poem
I have always wanted to write
But have never written!
I also feel
It will die a death.
He who talks with his head
And not with his heart –
Is he an animal, a brute?
The human animal?
A thing worse than an animal?
Humans or the only animals
To have developed speech –
I have been back in civilisation
Under the pressure of the increased workload
In the last two weeks
After the notice for election is issued.
And I have spent the whole day
Talking with my head
And not with my heart.
The divorce
Between science and religion,
The divorce
Between civilisation and history,
The divorce
Between the innate conservatism of the old
And the iconoclasm of the young,
The divorce
Between a human being and another!
Ah, my heart is separated
From my head
But not yet divorced.
And the old desire to write a poem
A poem of life –
It is coming back,
It is coming back to me now.
* Poem written by K. Radhakumar which was published at The Sangai Express
This poem was webcasted on March 12, 2017.
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