Union Blessed with Separation
- Deep from the Soul -
K. Radhakumar *
I have been waiting
All these past years of my life;
Nobody asks me to
But I have been waiting long –
Maybe it is in my nature.
I seem cursed in bad luck
For last night
My sleep was decked out in a dream
But I felt very very sleepy;
Perhaps it was the heat
And too much of wine before dinner
But I did not care.
I do not know if I was seeing things;
Did it really happen
Or was it a dream?
I am not happy
At the best of times,
I am much worse now
Living in the shadow of the opportunity
Not to be missed but somehow missed.
One airy afternoon
The simple and wonderful truth dawned:
My life as a unit had become
Part of a larger coherent whole
And paradoxically, the two existed
As separate entities.
What I am waiting for
Will come, I feel, like sunshine
The way it had come
One airy afternoon
In my early teens.
Life's too short
To keep on waiting.
There is not enough time
To live my life twice over,
I don't want to get stuck
In this place all my life
And keep on waiting –
I want to live.
I'd like to be prepared
To live my life and accept my death
And meet God like I meet my friends
Or meet your Maker
In utter disbelief
And get a terrible shock.
* Poem written by K. Radhakumar which was published at Hueiyen Lanpao (English Edition)
This poem was webcasted on July 15 2013.
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