Hemant Bawankar
☆ Poison or betrayal… ☆ Hemant Bawankar ☆
No problem.
You had glorified me
in the iridescent womb
of an iridescent world.
You showed me
an elusive glance of the world
in the shadow of the rainbow
heavenly-natural-divine
glimpses of pleasure
rivers of milk
and
the golden world,
the height of civilization
scientific-atomic-space age
glimpses of an era
ocean of pleasures
and
you showed me
unimaginable
colourful dreams.
I became anxious
to see your heaven
but, no
now you cannot trick me.
I am watching
difference
in theory and practical.
I
I can’t remain silent.
I will scream.
I will say to all.
You betrayed me.
However,
I am not like you
I will never betray
The creature! ….The soul!
Which is flourishing
in my iridescent womb.
I… I will give
venom to it.
But, betrayal!
Not at all.
14th June, 1978
(This poem has been cited from my book “The Variegated Life of Emotional Hearts”.)
© Hemant Bawankar
Pune
