KALASHA

KALASHA

Life I took your lashes on my soul

They kept branding too, their gleeful goal

Had the lashes and branding been on my body

What a miserable sight I would appear to anybody

See not a mark on my body seen

Ha! If they could see what my soul has, through been

Whatever, it was the soul who took all the brunt

So many years passed did you ever hear my grunt

Now where will you aim your lashes on my soft stole

Not a space unmarked you left on my within whole

They are trying to look for the stains desperately

But I carry those wounds on my soul profusely

All the wounds have merged and become a protective Kalasha

Willingly, now I sink them, in my quicksand of sentimental mush.

India

19/01/22

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The ‘Kalasha’ is believed to contain amrita, the elixir of life, and thus is viewed as a symbol of abundance, wisdom, and immortality.

In this poem it means a ‘shield’