Sweet Poison Poem by Prabir Gayen

Sweet poison

I eat a mouthful of sweet stuff,
Sweet and savory,
tasty and palatable,
I eat with fullness and eat with wholeness,
I eat the sapid food and become eating,
I eat and eating becomes me.
The sweet and sour become my taste,
Sweet taste becomes sour as a test.
The mouthful sweet becomes mouthful upas,
I eat a mouthful venom with tasty flavour.
The sweet and sour, nectar and poison are similar to my being.
Human body is a bloated balloon
full of poison,
I eat delicious food and it becomes poison.
We eat poison in the name of food.
Sweet in taste and upas in consequence.
Socrates drank hemlock,
He drank with total awareness,
Drinking with awareness made him stable,
Poison became nectar for knowing the unknowable,
Knowing Life totally by living it completely,
He jumped into infinity,
Landed in the land of darkness with the illumined Mind,
He became light eternally ineffable.
I ate with pain in heart as I am novice in the soil of life,
With fleeting glimpse of freshness,
aliveness,
I am an uprooted sapling
With sun and shower having little knowledge of the depth of hidden soil.
Without dance and ecstasy I ate sweet with no fragrant knowledge.
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