Surrounded by matter...
I must be a memory map
Unforgiving
Insensate and eternal!
If a cell, then, dies
Does that part of me
Get lost forever?
Are you and your
Thoughts
In me
A
Cancer?
An
Unpredictable
Mutation?
Dear Me!
For, do I lose..
In that Carcinoma
When you overwhelm?
Or find myself
Fairly inundated
Terminally
As you seep into
Every nook and
Cranny of my
Consciousness?
Tell me
Dear One,
How will I ever
Cure myself
Of you?
7 January, 2009
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Post Script:
Just posted this last night on the Ah Poetry comm., after an AGE, on Orkut, and so I had to share it here, as I usually do :)
Read this one? For you especially, Dhiren :)
Here
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Usha ma'am, I loved it...."how will I ever cure myself of you" inundated with self introspection from a point that you want to see yourself...thanks for a good start to the day :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Pankti :) [of the Gobbledygook fame?Just wondering :)] Thank you too, for making mine a better one!
ReplyDeleteUsha,
ReplyDeleteThanks to your great words, I have started to have a feeble inkling towards poetry.
Talking of cancer, I have read this somewhere - 'carcer cures smoking!'
Cheers,
Salil
whoa!! *same pinch*
ReplyDeleteAnd this poem is tenderly beautiful.. Only you can make even cancer seem romantic!
Why would one want to forget "him" anyways!
Lovely!! Aesthetically pleasing in way!!
ReplyDeleteKeep blogging!
Aww! you're "sick"! :)
ReplyDeletewhy would you want cure... of him...
ReplyDeletehey,
ReplyDeleteits amazing!The feeling is expressed so beautifully but thoughtfully that it touches the core instantly.The personification of cancer and to relate it with the human heart is simply soul warming.
-The Quest
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Ma'am great work :)
ReplyDeleteLoved the lines ,"How will I ever
Cure myself
Of you?
"
''Or find myself
ReplyDeleteFairly inundated
Terminally
As you seep into
Every nook and
Cranny of my
Consciousness?
Tell me
Dear One,
How will I ever
Cure myself
Of you?''
How indeed?
:)beautiful as ever...mesmerising and with a depth most profound....the fortunate few have this, I assume..:)
and are both blessed and cursed...for it is like having an addiction for life.....
Gibran's words come to mind...
with the addiction a lot of space is required too perhaps...and as he says,''let the windes of the heavens dance between you''
''Or find myself
ReplyDeleteFairly inundated
Terminally
As you seep into
Every nook and
Cranny of my
Consciousness?
Tell me
Dear One,
How will I ever
Cure myself
Of you?''
How indeed?
:)beautiful as ever...mesmerising and with a depth most profound....the fortunate few have this, I assume..:)
and are both blessed and cursed...for it is like having an addiction for life.....
with the addiction, a lot of space is required too perhaps...
Gibran's words come to mind...
,''let the windes of the heavens dance between you''
and yet one would be blessed to have this addiction :)
The poetic profundity of it all. Take a bow, ma'am! :)
ReplyDeleteLoved the parallelism you drew in the end. The inner self, which - unknowing to us - can be so open to change (unpredictable mutation, as u beautifully put it!).
The cure - Purity of thought, clarity in outlook, brevity in speech. A health, free from influence. :)
Message beautifully conveyed.
Peace. Have a nice weekend.
If I had 10% of your vision and diction.. I would print a T-Shirt claiming that
ReplyDelete"Things are better said."
The fight goes away with the quarrel of emotions :)
How Will I ever
Cure Myself
Of You?
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Every me for every you ?
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Loved it! Quite introspective:) Wonder how I missed this blog...came in today from Ana's. Am so glad:)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful verse. A condition where the disease is better than the cure
ReplyDeleteSimply Beautiful :) :) :)
ReplyDeleteAmazing! Poetry can say things prose never can, and still make it sound so ..err poetic,
ReplyDelete'If a cell, then, dies
Does that part of me
Get lost forever?'
I read this come where, if its "in-curable" that means its Curable from within.
ReplyDeleteIntrospective thoughts, deep ones
:)
Cure may not always be possible. Relief from pain is. :)
ReplyDeleteUsha, So profound. No words are enough to praise your art of words.
ReplyDeletebeautiful..
ReplyDeletewishes..
this is so very tender and beautiful.... a person experiencing love in comatose state.....
ReplyDeleteSalil , :) Trust you to come up with something that really makes it worth writing :) Thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteMeena, lol, same pinch :) And yes why would one want to forget him? U got to the nitty gritty real quick :) Thanks!
Biju Mathews , thank you for the good words :)
Sanket , right :) And how!! Thank you!
Dhiren, indeed :) Thanks for the assurance :)
Jeet , wow, that is a fresh new look at the write :) Thank you for shining that light on it :) And yes, the name of your blog is akin to this one... :) As is the template to Arnav's :) Special coincidences, I guess. Thank you for being here :)
Arnav , thank you :) So very much!
Indyeah , Meg, yes, a fortunate few do find themselves so blessed :) And may you be one of them is what I pray :) Thank you so much for the way you brought in Khalil G. too, a quote of his that I do so like too! Thanks!
Karthik, that is a profound reply too :) Loved all those suggestions for the cure too... esp the habits to inculcate :) Thank you!
Prabhu, now what do i say to this:
The fight goes away with the quarrel of emotions :)
:)
Brilliant! I stand speechless in the face of that wonderful line :)
Thank you :)
Naperville mom, thank you :)
PRG, well said, that sometimes the malaise is better :) Thanks so much!
Sash... :) Thank you dear one :)
IHM.. err.. poetry? Lol. I dont know :) I would rather call them rambles :) Thanks for the good words, and for being here, after a while :)
Shalu, now that is a stunning discovery :) Cure from within :) Good take :) Thanks!
Rukhiya, another fresh look at it... :) Relief from pain, yes there is that! Thanks!
Solilo :) :) thanks!
MIP, Thanks!
Meenakshi, thank you too!
awww....loved it!
ReplyDeletespl d last lines...how will i ever cure myself of you! so true!
u have poems for all emotions...all dat i feel at least! ;)
Priayanka, a little late in the day, :) But thank you!
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