That Is How We Became Blind Poem by Ramakrushna Sahu

THAT IS HOW WE BECAME BLIND

The reflection of the beauty
of the earth
In the dazzling light of thunderbolt
Penetrated deep into the eyeballs
Before sense came out of its sleep
And suddenly caught
By the rush of innumerable colours

That is how we became blind

In the disguise of
Poets, seers and scientists
We declared ourselves as gods
And woven dreams of thousand
shapes and sizes
We forced truth to pass
Through the prism of mind
To be caught in the pieces of
Broken glasses scattered all around

That is how we became blind

We dared to dive
the depth of unknown
We dared to explore
the heart of silence
We dared to touch the sky
Standing on the peaks
Of the highest snowcapped hills
And suddenly forgot
The meanings of all these deeds

That is how we became blind

In the lust of knowledge
We split the centre of atom
To destroyed the earth
And in the search of freedom
We split all centres
Of human love and bonds


That is how we became blind
That is how we became blind.