A First Spiritual Experience! Poem by Ramesh T A

It was an unprecedented experience in life!
Cold climate, beautiful natural scenes, lake
With mist covering all places both at noon
And after noon made him feel elated long!

Hari enjoyed boat riding and playing with kids
And catching fish seen in the small streams
Going across the estate with over-bridge on it!
Such a place haunted him beyond words to say!

He did small services of taking coffee to his uncle
Who was immersed in smoking cigarette aloof!
Cigarette smoke, mist and hot coffee vapour
Made him feel the touch of a mystic unknown!

He loved that kind of mystical experience much;
He enjoyed more in that kind of spiritual pleasure
Than playing hide and seek with other children or
Playing cards or chess or snake and ladder games!