Who Am I, Dear? Poem by Aniruddha Pathak
Who Am I, Dear?
If this home by home-maker is made,
He mused on this existential dark:
Who am I, one that brings home mere bread?
The truth stared at him ever so stark!
Mute witness that from home duties shirks—
Purusha watching Prakriti slog,
You pride at pinching prime homely perks,
She said, well ensconced, lime-light to hog.
If voice works on words and life on breath,
Eyes on sight, sound waves vetted by ears,
Mind on thoughts, if from heart cometh faith,
O what work-apron this spirit wears?
I'm the soul: the sole conscious being,
Soul does a key job of enabling!
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A man wondered: if she is a home-maker then who he is. In Indic philosophy, purusha is the doer, the spirit, a conscious being; and prakriti is material nature. But she uses the term here to mean someone useless around the house. In the sestet the man ponders, and then arrives at his own reconciliation as the couplet shows. The sonnet, with a lighter tone, is set in anapaest metre.
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Sonnets | 05.07.2017 |
Thank you for adding the information in the Poet's Note- it was very helpful and informative to me!
Thank you, Susan Williams if not for the poem, for the Poetic Note at least.
If voice works on words and life on breath we have think on spirit. A beautiful poem with wise theme is excellently presented.10
Thank you, Kumarmani Mahakul, I appreciate that you've reached my poem so soon.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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Mind on thoughts! ! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
Yes, Edward Louis, as a Greek philosopher said, 'We are, for, we think', and I'd add we are also what we think. So, when the husband asks, Who am I, you're right. Thank you.