Analysis of Survival
When your body starts to revolt
With candle light protests
All over,
Start reading fairy tales
And scary scriptures
Only to find what is enlightenment.
Once your body got blistered
In and out the other end,
You will be taught about
Lighting up and enlightenment.
You will be taught
To observe your body
And every other body
In a different light
Hotter and drier.
You will be taught
To read your body
And every other body
As the abode of God,
So, keep it chaste.
You will be taught
To decode your body
And every other body
As the one that is mortal,
So, keep it detached.
You will be taught
To sense your body
And every other body
As besetting fire inside
So, douse it with prayers
Incessantly.
You will be taught
To watch your body
And every other body
As mirroring what is inside
So, don’t go anywhere
Searching it outside.
You will be taught
To start thinking
When ‘You’ and ‘I’
Stay one and the same,
Why should waste
A touch and feel
So, trash your anatomy texts
That talks about heterogeneities.
Once you learnt
What is light
Beyond electromagnetic waves,
Close your books
And seal your candles.
Once you learnt
How to sit cross-legged
Or how to stand on knees,
Heave a sigh
At the light, inside out
And watch your life
Dark, as a constant revolt
Or a shadow fight
Until it is no more.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101101 11011 110 110101 01010 1011110100 1110110 0010101 111101 10100100 1111 101110 01001010 001001 10010 1111 11110 01001010 100111 1111 1111 101110 01001010 1011110 11101 1111 11110 01001010 10101001 11111 0100 1111 11110 01001010 11001101 11110 10111 1111 1110 1101 11001 111 0101 11101001 11011 111 111 01000101 111 01110 111 111110 111111 101 101011 0111 1101001 1011 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,332 |
Words | 270 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 8, 5, 9 |
Lines Amount | 59 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
About this poem
This poem is about the survival mechanism of a common man against the odds of so called spirituality which is often misunderstood when one confronts it in the guise of morality.
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Written on October 08, 2018
Submitted by sreejaraaman on October 20, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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