seshendra
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Me and My Peacock or My Peacock and My Me( A Dialogue Across Time and Space )WORDS AND CENTURIES ---------------------------------Words and Centuries
(This is Seshendra Sharma's unique / rare writing ,
This is father’s speech
( Seshendra Sharma
at “ Meet the author Program “ jointly organised
by India International Centre and Sahitya Akademi : New Delhi
on 05. 12. 1995 -------
I come out of sleep only to return into dream
I am that pain which cannot see the world
The dreams that I dream in the night
Are bridges that I build over the days
Do not alight on my heart like flies
From the rubbish
Does not bite as rats bite bread,
Rise like swords
From flames of sufferings:
Write on the walls of the universal space
On the body of my country
Tanks of water are red wounds
Rivers are flowing blood
Yielding to the voices of the flesh
Here the sky sold away its sun for a fistful of stars
I set in pain
And rise in happiness
I am the human sun
Do not be blown off
Like the leaf
Wounded by the wind
I know
Your thoughts were birds
Chasing one another
I am the drop of sweat, I am the sun
Rising from the hills of human sinews,
Hearts are my friends
I live in the city of sufferings
Although in my fist, I hold an ocean of history
I sculptured man silently –
