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The Sea
1 The sea is very different From the sky Different too are The clouds from each other But when, as she stands on the shore, He holds her in his wavy arms makes wet the hair scattered on her face
fondles her thighs, puts his head on her feet And turns back, Then, where is the difference Between him And an unsatisfied lover ?
2 Every evening taking the samidha of clouds in the
homakund of the sun putting the ahuti of waves the sea creates an
abhichar, every evening black comes from the abhichar gives the news of a conspiracy, and from this conspiracy this world has grown
3 As the evening withers away a star sprouts direct on the sea with his finger on his lips he bids me, you and them be quiet be careful,
you are not the only one alone, we all are alone in our own sea
4 I saw him and the sea that evening he was lolling in the sea
and the sea was overflowing in him
He saw me and the sea together the sun was sinking in the sea and I was sinking with him
We saw each other and started sinking in each other
5 In the black quietness of the night the earth grows
a ray of light
What is unusual in it the sky always hangs lamps of light every night look at the sea why does he remain behind he is bringing the line of light which burns the oven across the sea
6 Somebody says it is an open sky as open as an open fist
Somebody says it is a deep sea as deep as the heart of man
When I saw it was an empty canvas where there was not a single line of scratch
7 It is the sea of smell of bodies of floating light the smell makes the nostrils flutter
like fish swimming in water .
That smell enters into every pore like pieces of shells. and the body changes
into a sea of smell
8 keeping close to his chest innumerable colors like floating lights and laughing rocks how lonely is the sea who knows?
Even the sea does not know but when his reverberations the waves putting their heads on the shore and the bursting bubbles
whisper into the ears how lonely is the sea who knows?
9 The sea is getting wet
in the rain laughing like a desert child
The sea is getting wet
with his own tears smiling like a young woman sitting on an island
The sea is getting wet with the shower of love sobbing in pain
getting separated from his loved one
The sea is getting wet
in the first rain after summer
10 The smell of the sea
is different from the soil wet in the rain it has no relation to the smell of a flower it does not know
the sharp taste of passion
The smell of the sea does not enter into the nostrils but enters into every pore and touches gently and hypnotizes
The smell of the sea tells the oral story of the sweat of fishermen the play of sea animals and the legends of ships
–
Dr. Rati
Saxena
February 9, 2003
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