Sunday, May 13, 2007

Continuum

Sometimes a piece of sky seems SO own
You wish to give it a name.
It defies all logic , though
Just a plain sense of possession.
You gaze at it for long and wonder why you like it..
just a regular gloomy strip.

Losing it,for the sky, would be like clipping its nails.
But,you keep on telling yourself -
It's this which needs you the most;
and feel like one in charge.

Failure, at once,it strikes.
The strongest possession you hold.
You shake your head in disgust.
That ain't a name,you think
and scan through every image from the sister
who wears a heel to stand as tall as you
to the uncle who finds but fault with everything you do!
Ronnie,Tony,Zubin,
normal,parabola,sine;
and before it turns ugly,
It's all perversion you declare
and point your mind away.

Suddenly you notice
a part of what was yours has merged with what was not.

And then,at length,you feel....
IT'S YOU WHO NEEDS A NAME.
-Samartha Vashishtha.



I really don't know why i chose to write this poem in my very first blog....(i can list out a few 'maybe becauses',but,i don't much like guessing)

It always fascinates me - the element of abstraction the continuum has in it -every time i read it.
Maybe that's why i like it so much..

I keep wishing that i would someday be able to write down anything & everything i feel like..Anytime..But,Writing is tuf..it really is.


8 comments:

Niki Nachappa said...

if anytime i wondered what went on in ur head,ur blog only heightened it...Sahanaa, the beauty of life is sometimes in things we don't understand...its tuf for me to appreciate that poem but its like a song in a language u dono...the melody speaks to ur heart even when the words don't....
sometimes silence speaks, only i got too much noise in my head to hear it...
great start...

SVR said...

Nice poem. well written.

But my question starts where the poem ends - how much time does it take for a person to move from a realization that "He/she is the one who needs a name" to "Why do we need a name anyways"
Does it matter - why and how?

Sanaha said...

How soon one realizes it is subjective.Some may never realize....and some may never even try..!

Possesiveness makes us give everything a name..With a name,comes a sense of belonging..

We may,perhaps, never realize that whatever we named may not belong to us at all and how it matters ....

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Sanaha said...

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who's this ICEMAN??

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समर्थ वाशिष्ठ / Samartha Vashishtha said...

Hi Sahana,

This is Samartha here. Thanks for your kind words about my poem. Would like to know more about you.

I can be reached at vashishtha@gmail.com.

Take care.