Anita Sehgal Poems

Dear Heart,
Be still.

Why can you not be?
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Tormented by petty desires,
Base emotions …
Ignoble thoughts run riot,
When did Thy image get polluted -
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I kneel at the feet of my Guru,
Longing for blessings,
waiting for Myself to be revealed to me.
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The boat of destiny

takes you across a thousand shores.
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YOU too have desires..

YOU desire that we come to YOU..
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I know not what the cause

and what the effect.
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Prabhu mai tujh me leen rahu yaise!
Jaise pani me boond
Jaise samunder mai lahare
Jaise paodoo me pate
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Life has shut its doors on me.
However hard I pound and knock..
It does not respond.
I long to reach out to the joys and the smiles of life,
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Something stirred within me,

A memory, faint as the footprints on the washed out sand
… Déjà vu
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NOW sits with its head bent
Arms around its knees,
Like a petulant child gazing at the walls in the corner.
The shadow of the past, looms threateningly
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