Teesta Review: A
Journal of Poetry, Volume 8, Number 1. May 2025. ISSN: 2581-7094
--- Mrittika Das
Dear Varanasi, Kashi, Avimukta, Anandavana,
Rudravasa-
I don’t know how to name you.
I don’t know which name is dear to you.
I have never been to you.
But I have endless questions to ask you.
If you are Avimukta- will you let me live in your
abode?
If you are Kashi- will you lit the clay lamp of
my heart, half-damp and doused in the storm of life?
If you are Varanasi- will you throw light to the
fertile lands of the world which grows the crops
of love- long lost and rotten?
If you are Anandavana- will you let the clouds burst
into droplets of hope over the starving leaves of
desire?
Will you give me the bliss of Moksha?
If you are Avimukta- will you give me the divine
strength
to not let lose myself to anger and to the disgrace
where Kalyug conspires me to destruct?
If you are Rudravasa- will you let me arrive to see
the eternal?
Will you assimilate my sorrow in the supreme and
transform it into un-materialistic joys?
Will you let me cremate all my darkness in your
Mahashamshana- so it could never reincarnate to
reach me?
If yes, then let me embark to quest my soul in order
to
unite to its lover- divinity.
There are more questions I want to ask you and
I will embark to know you
I will embark to reach knowledge
I will embark to reach you.
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