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Born at Deoghar, India - in the easern province of Jharkhand. Trained in Canada in medical research. Bhaswat Chakraborty finds writing poetry is a way .. more >>
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Oh Load-Bearers of Humanity

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  When I gasp for strength
I borrow it from you, oh the strong ones!
You carry the load stupendous
Of the humanity
Time and time again
Since the dawn of awareness

How do you do that I wonder
The weight of ignorance
The mountain of evil
The heaps of malice
of billions (and countlessly repeated)
You carry the cross of non-love alone
Time and time again
For others to feel loved
Appreciated and pleased

How do you do that I wonder
How do you stay so calm
Amid the whirlpool of clamour
Kind and compassionate
In devouring face of brutality and mayhem
How do you spread your light
Right through the forest
of fear, delusion and stupor
You salvage the soul
For others to be safe
And to feel light and restful
In a life of little wisdom

How do you do that I wonder
How do you spread your magic
Of charm, nobility and honour
In hearts so dark there
that beasts may refuse a habitation
How do you pull that trick
of giving the innocence back
so that he is human again!
How do you enthrall
the dull, the doped, the ordinary
to carry the torch
of your divine glory

Oh load-bearers of humanity
I wonder how you carry the load so awesome
But when I gasp for strength
I take refuge in your strength
I take refuge in you!

Bhaswat Chakraborty


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  Hasmukh Amathalal  (9/25/2009 11:15:00 PM)

Oh load-bearers of humanity
I wonder how you carry the load so awesome
But when I gasp for strength
I take refuge in your strength
I take refuge in you! it is inner strength and storng desire to stand against..makes us to take refuge and face... lovley poem with strong message....10

read mine...message...welcome.... blood all over.bi tter words
  Sherri Coulter  (9/17/2009 11:24:00 PM)

...although the load being weary, I trudge, muddle the puddle, and I seem to come out feeling lighter than air, and knowing how much I am loved.10/10
  Noel Horlanda  (8/8/2009 2:17:00 AM)

You must have gotten a lot of strength and energy from the bearers of humanity. Very awesome indeed. Great lines, well thought, deep in meaning in short excellent. A thousand applause to the writer.
  You... don't... want me...  (8/7/2009 8:25:00 PM)

very powerful poem great work :) !
  Henry Brown (Poem Known)  (8/6/2009 10:48:00 AM)

A deep write by a deep poet
  Bob Blackwell  (8/4/2009 10:32:00 AM)

Great poem, I sometimes wonder how they bear the load, when the virus of evil spreads so easlily. 10++
  Uchenna Nnodum  (8/1/2009 2:29:00 PM)

nice poem.in the life we need someone or something to hang on to in time of need and despair.10+
  Louis Rams  (7/27/2009 6:43:00 PM)

the last three lines to me say it all
but when i gasp for strength
i take refuge in your strength
i take refuge in you.
  Ramesh T A  (7/25/2009 8:01:00 AM)

How humanity is facing reality of Kali Yuga is well expressed in the poem. Nice to read!

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