Salvation Poem by Dilip Mohapatra

Salvation

Sentenced to solitude
I merge myself in you
the master mariner
and you envelop me
and absorb me in you
and I knowit's after all
tested waters
known territory
that is engraved in my memory
and I don't need a compass
nor a chart to mark my position
from time to time
and safely sailing within you
one day surely I will find myself.

I rest for a while
on the uncertain shores
and look back to count the footprints
that I left behind inadvertently
on the sands of time
but before I could arrive at a figure
they get obliterated
by one sudden sweep of
an unexpected wave
of consciousness
leaving in the wake a complete chasm
an unfathomable black hole.

I open my haversack
and take out my half finished bottle
of wine
and pour it over the receding wave
and throw few bread crumbs for the fish
soaked in few drops of blood
from my veins
in an act of propitiation
and cascade myself
into the opening arms of the eternal sea
taking with me the hook
line and sinker
all of it in one go
never to be caught again
and then I see no sea
no ship
not even you at the helm
and surely there is
no need
to triangulate and fix my location
and find out who I may be
and where I could be.
- - - - - - -

Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: spiritual
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
READ THIS POEM IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Close
Error Success