A word before you read

I am not really a poet and these are mere attempts to write poetry. I would conveniently call them free verse to escape criticism. I feel an urge to express an idea or a deep feeling or strong emotion or just describe a scene. The result is what you see.

Friday, September 7, 2018

Nature Speaking

I am neutral as neutral as can be
Only my inner dynamics govern me –
pressure, heat, magnetic fields and alike
I take no sides but afflict everyone alike.
I see not riches or rags, your affiliations
your race, caste or your creed
your goodness or your wickedness
whether unborn, child or disabled.
I am beyond all these
true to my inner dynamics.

It is you who bestow me human qualities,
give me a convenient voice, a connived emotion,
a twisted thought, just as you do to your Gods.
You paint me as it suits your whim and fancy
benevolent and caring or revengeful and angry.
You feel your prayers, chants and litanies
can influence me and your pain ease. 
You drown in your whirlpool of illusions.
I subside to my original familiar self
when my inner forces attain a balance.

Can you be just like me
true to your human nature?
Can you think rationally, critically, creatively?
Can you encompass all in compassion?
Can you stop thinking that you are apart from me?
Can you realise that you are part of me?
Can you stop wallowing in your delusions?
Can you stop disturbing my inner dynamics?
For when you alter my inner nature even by a fraction
you and I know not the ugly consequence.

I am completely unbiased
true to my inner nature.
It is you who picture me
as human or a demi-god
like this fool writing these lines
giving me a human voice.