Unification Poem by Ratnakar Rout

A lonely bird was desperately
Roving in swarming sky
The nomadic clouds like the procession of a victorious king
Were conquering all the nooks and corners
The tired sun was returning home
Down hill in the western horizon
And ardently striving to mark its existence
But its’ passionate endeavor faded gradually
Like the heroic come back of a
Wounded soldier before its’ last breath
It shadowed the entire surrounding with radiant rays
And had finally swallowed by the most fierce rain.

I was no better in a crowded train compartment
Than the little bird, the feeble little creature
My back home journey was much enviable
I was fervently drowned in loneliness
My thinking isolated me,
My ‘self’ from among many
Alike the forlorn bird in the evening sky
In that twilight hour amidst absolute silence
Though many others in the desolate sky
Mutually sharing their experience
And expressing them explicitly
Through sweet chirpings
Were returning to the destination in flicks
As if a group of soldiers were marching the victory procession
Or like river flooded into the villages
And submerged the whole lot that came on the way.
But the lone bird could not join any of the flicks
As if for all time to come
He had lost the way and left alone
Might be his destiny was shaped that way.

It continued wandering here and they’re in the vast sky
And didn’t find the path.
What was it searching for?
My thoughts went wild
It touched many horizons
And unfolded many mysteries
Untold stories it read
Obsolete destination it visited
Abandoned places it searched
Many relics it gathered
Significant footprints it studied
And pondered over the lot reflected in the mind
Though I was quietly sitting in my compartment
I was not within and roaming all around
What was I looking for?
Where was I actually at that point of time?
I was not that ‘I’, physically present there
My mortal body was very well in existence
But I felt conjoined with the lonely little bird,
The setting sun, the pregnant rain and everything.
I got unified with the entire universe slowly
And my endless journey went on.