The Poetry Of The Dark Daughter Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Poetry, the poetry of the dark daughter write I,
Mythical, mystical, symbolical,
Supernatural, nocturnal, religious,
Sociological, aboriginal,
Sculptural, architectural, museumological,
Earthly, metaphysical,
Feminine, humanistic, liberal,
Artistic and sympathetic
Write I,
About her being a girl-child
Left in the temple campus
To be a devadasi, a sevadasi
Or a nautch girl.

The poetry, poetry of the dark daughter write I,
How did she come to the temple premises,
Who plotted for her coming,
The middle men and the brokers search I
To identify them,
The horoscope-makers and the soothsayers,
The florists and the cleaners,
As sometimes blind faith betrays it and misleads too
And God not in the temples, but in hearts,
We have forgotten it
Our sense of ethics and morality?

As a devadasi see I living in the temple complex all alone
In the company of the faith-blind people,
A slave into the service of the gods and goddesses of stone,
She has but to turn into a semi-divine fellow,
Lost, abnormal and unworldly
As she cannot return home,
As a sevadasi she but an agent of the fake sadhu in the ashrama
With ganja in the chillum to smoke
And she serving the worldly saint
And as a nautch girl, find I her turned into a sculpture
On the outer side of the temple,
A replica indeed.