Evocation Poem by Umeshkumar Radhakrishnan

Here I stand blank
searching for words and
something else?

Come, Come, I call out to you.
Come and draw my paper blue.

No! What sin are you committing!
You enslave the unwilling,
harass their souls.

Thou art a sinner.
No sinning evermore.

A Sinner! Mistaken thou art.
I invite them to glorify,
to make peace in me.
Not to chain them,
but to tie life’s string to tune.

They arise in me
or I make them arise.
For, the sole goal is
pleasure to the painful heart
and solace to the tattered soul.