Antithesis — Rati Agnihotri

 

A
Raaga of Love

A heartless stone-cutter

Chisels
the stones gently,

In
another time and place

Lovers
locked in an eternal embrace

Have
turned fossils

Almost

  Banality of language

    Cannot capture the sublime magic of love

    Now, I mean this simple, straightforward

 No pun intended

  But the reader will forcefully read between
the lines,

 That is precisely what I meant.

An echo chamber

A
philopsher’s mind,

A
lover’s heart

And
an eternal vision

That
reveals itself

Only
in the deep seated chasm of a dream

All this

To
create

The

Raaga
of Love .

 Antithesis

 And
now

Bring
back the woods

In  solid representational forms,

Tacky
caricatures of the now gone kingdom of nature,

     Talk about wood

     Showcase the placards, banners and the
pretty postcards,

     Curate the show

   With a hawk’s eye

And
a heart of the gold,

 

Gold
will create the perfect woods

Now
that the kingdom of nature is gone.

 

 

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