HARVENDRA SINGH

A Prayer in Darkness

In this world of uncertainty,
In this darkness, stark and impenetrable,
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Like the focus of an electronic torch,
Your rays bathe me in a steady glow,
Bringing globules of health, happiness, prosperity—
Love, success, and power flow.
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She is the shade of a tree cold and profound,
She is every herb to my aching wound.
She dabs my forehead, putting in her lap
And her lap's warmth gives me a cozy nap.
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A whirlpool
And the spinning of the dead leaf,

For a moment, ecstasy, warmth;
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Some dead are alive,
Some alive are dead,
And some are thoughtless.
Some graves under the tree of morality
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The present is not present in the present,
But it is present in the past.
And one cannot change one's present,
Because the present has passed with the past.
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Born in a hidden place,
My family unknown to the present world,
I would have been fated to bloom and fade unseen,
But for the faithful friends,
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Our progress
is progressing.

Only in shabby shanties
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"The heart measures what the clock cannot record."

The sun rises, the sun sets,
Bringing the freshness of another morn.
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Often, she and I play a verbal match—
Her speech, a soft ball,
Mine, a solid bat
That sends her words sailing.
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In vacant hours,
when your moving steps are absent
and the sound of your lips is missing,
I enter into my own heart
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Go on—
taste it.
Sure, it will prick;
you'll bleed.
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Keep the lamp oiled,
And have the company of shadows.
The relation—shadows—
Will always creep around;
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Run along the highway—
Sanatan is the mother of many paths.
Narrow lanes and by-streets
may lead you deep into the jungles.
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In gardens of innocence, she blooms
A delicate flower, with a tender perfume
Her laughter echoes, like a gentle stream
But shadows creep, with a sinister scheme
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The Key, Old, and Forgotten

The key, hangs on the nog,
Old, forgotten and alone,
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The sky is changing,
The earth is changing
The heaven's changing,
Our life is changing.
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One Day It Rained

One day it rain'd, it rain'd ov'r roofs,
Ov'r tops of trees, in open yards,
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Towards the north-east, in the dark of night,
With a sudden flash, came a shaft of light.
From the eastern corner upto the southern side,
Into a shape of screen, some rays scatter'd wide.
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If you are feeling negative
You can keep yourself positive by playing 'Negative'
In a single second of life
There are thousands ways to play 'Negative'
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