Shri Ashish Mulay
– “Choice-Heist…” – ☆ Shri Ashish Mulay ☆
(A weekly column ‘The Grey Lights’ by Mr. Ashish Mulay)
Prologue: This poem is about the original mistake humankind has made… from which all the discriminations are born and has made human life miserable. That first mistake was not considering women as equal human… and using force to bend her will. No other animal in nature does that to his own species’ better half… and unfortunately for survival the better half had to weaponise the most beautiful thing in the world – “love.”
…and span of this mistake isn’t limited to only man and woman relation, but you can see it everywhere from kings oppressing subjects, bosses suppressing subordinates, teachers suppressing students and so on…I hope power is not used against the weak… power is for thorns not the flowers.
I have realised it
You hated my force and power
as much as you loved it…
It was me who first misused it
It was me
who moved against
the nature’s wit…
inside your softest heart
I nailed the insatiable ego
that’s the original sin
I did eons ago..
in quest to
become a man
I called you beast
oh, I did a choice-heist..
used the force
against you
only to force you
to use all yours…
what a fool
I was in reality
never understood that
you had a gravity…
gravity that can make
planets move
even the stars
collapse in your groove…
I have realised
my mistakes
and disastrous attempts
that I have made..
but you held
my hand like a mother
and walked me alone
in the darkest hour…
now in the darkness
I am all alone
for I am the one
who indeed has fallen…
in this darkness
I shall burn
your void is what
that made me learn…
to create the light
I shall burn
burn with mightiest flames
so others can learn…
I shall burn
until the dawn breaks
or
until my heart wrecks…
© Shri Ashish Mulay
Sangli
≈ Editor – Shri Hemant Bawankar/Editor (English) – Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ≈
