Tuesday, 30 March 2021

A girl went to a church.

 

A Girl is born,

How pretty is the little lady,

Having forty winks in the cradle.

 

Taken her,

The little angel

To the church,

The holy of holiness, 

the house of worship, where

The god lives.


Saw with little eyes, 

A little boy taken to altar,

By a man clad in white, whilst

A line was drawn, intact, between

Altar and the angel.

She is a girl, and the girl

Doesn’t know.

Excluded!!!

 

She cried loud at age twelve, seeing

Red blood flowing, that

Lasted seven days.

Went to the church, in pain

To see the lord god.

Said no,

The church, from

Meeting her savior.

Impure, the needy!

Excluded!

 

Crossed the age twenty three,

Stood in the church, with

A man beside.

Him tied her firm, with

A tiny piece of metal, and  

Made a cage with rules,

Numbered many.

Excluded!!

 

Saw her in the church, in

The Right side, in

The singers folk, behind

Men, with a

Violin and not a piano.

Stays the dual word, in 

The dual world.  

Never saw her, in

The crowd, in

The dais, in

The Altar.

Excluded!

 

A girl born to her, the

Heir of the rules, offered by 

The world

To her, and not him.


Seventy is not sweet,

Like seventeen.

Heaven called her,

Asleep in the church, at

The center.

Alas!

Saw her, in

The crowd, 

On her final day,

Included!!

 

The heir of her rules

Said adieu, kissed

On the forehead.

Came a Man, to

Wrap her Face, with

The veil.

The heir, a lady,

Stood far away.

Excluded!  


 

Friday, 5 March 2021

In Jesus !


 

Beautiful!!!

What?

The dream...

The late night dream!

 

Asleep, in

‘My’ room,

‘My’ bed,

‘My’ house, but,

Not a home, I

Heard a Whisper,

Soothing like

Lullabies, I

Slept with.

 

Jesus, you! ?

Gazed at ‘His’ face,

Uttered I

Three times,

“Here is 'my' Jesus, the creator”.  

 

How do Jesus,

Once a refugee,

Victim of empire, who

Loved the leper, and

Mary of Magdalene, and

The entire creation, and

Left the flock of ninety-nine, to

Be with the one left,

Looks like?  

Asked many;

The black with a bible.

The refugee, still

Walking without shoes, to

‘Rest in peace’.

The transgender,

Struggling to stand in a

Crowd.

The women, in

‘Supporting’ role.

The queer in a dry shell, that

The society offered.

The Dalit, I

Never touched.

How ‘Pure’ I am?

 

I stood numb, when

A girl aged three, from

The hills of countryside,

Asked, with

A smile and Eyes open.

Deedhiee...

“What do my father wear?”

“Does he looks like me?”

“Did he ask about me?”

“No”, I

Replied!

Then?

 

Went back I

To 'my' dream.

How do he looks like?

Clad in white, with a

White face,

Very tall,

So handsome,

Bit of machismo, he

Whispered on my left ear,

“What do you need”?

I replied,

“Everything ‘my’ father”!

 

Not a dream, a

Nightmare!

Discerned, I.

The Jesus, was

‘My’ and ‘mine’, not

‘You’ and ‘yours’

The elite Jesus!

The white Jesus!

The Jesus of Capitalism!

The masculine Jesus!

The Jesus of Binaries!

The Jesus of the Church!

Jesus, the Social construct

My personal Jesus


Oh ‘my’ Jesus…

I wept 'in Jesus',

Unlike Jesus, who

Wept, with

Sisters of Lazarus!