Kaddsh, Kaddish. Allen Ginsberg's Kaddish Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Kaddish, kaddish,
Kaddish for whom
And what kaddish is for,
For whom,
Is it mourning,
Is it blessing,
What does it mean,
Mean kaddish,
Kaddish for mother,
Dead and gone by,
Kaddish for her soul
Bereaved and departed

And that too by a son
Recuperating, rehabilitating,
Lost in extracting pleasure,
Deviated and digressed
On the path of life
Trying to correct,
Correct and reform
A patient
Mental,
Rehabilitating,
Recuperating
And spiritual,
A materialist to a saint,
A saint to where,
Allen Ginsberg?

An outburst
Of an ailing soul,
Of a recuperating soul
Rehabilitating
And reforming
And correctingthe ways
Of his life
Deviated and digressed
In search of pleasure,
Materialistic pleasure
And experimentation with the self
Realized later on
Mesmerizing all that,
Mingling the realms
Of thought and idea,
Expression.

A soul restless,
Exasperated
And recuperating,
Correcting
And reforming,
From the ramp
To the romp
To the yogi,
Practising
Zen and yoga,
Dhyana to samadhi,
Taking drugs
To abandoning it
To turn up
As a persona
Psychotic,
Neurotic
And schizophrenic.