benares

Amitabh Mitra baba passed away in a strange land stranger a scientist wept at his loneliness ashamed he turned his head away the final light clasp was unearthly he passed on his dreams to a son a contract of constellations kolkata, benares, kanpur, gwalior lives unlived for baba i whispered in a galaxy of darkness death could have been lot kinder who would now tell me to come back home who would listen on the phone in deft attention although he hardly could hear anything his ashes were poured in the ocean at east london the priest told me it's the same the same ocean goes to the ganges the earthen pot containing his ashes toppled on to the sea but always came back with the waves the priest pondered, baba wants to come back and i live wearing a second skin living in churning motion of broken suns living encountering many non life forms living a zenith of foretold ideas and i live for ancient words i can never share only baba's outline sink in cohesion his voice far shadowed than before ....

Desicritics 2010