ECSTASY

ECSTASY

Surreal though but Ethereal,

Blessed in holiness the waters cleanse,

The world around her very real,

Thoughts in her mind very pleased.

Ripples created by the splash,

The saints on shore on a monotonous chant,

Lightening striking in a blinding flash; And,

The birds around in a chirruping rant.

Ecstatic moments, they seem to near,

Draped in a cloth effervescently as such,

The maiden she stood without any fear,

Her body and soul cleansed by the touch.

The waters around her very clear,

Touched the heart, reverberations of chants,

Pyres they burnt incessantly near,

Singed in the heat as the blades burnt.

The ground around seethingly grey,

Ash in the sky, with wails around,

People as they looked on, towards the prey,

Oblivious she was, to the hues and sound.

She raised her hands to the skies above,

When suddenly a shriek, it came from the crowd.

Aghast we looked, when a tempestous surge,

A water wall swept her off the ground.

The lady pulled in by the watery wave,

The crowd now looked on in ghastly awe,

Numb struck by shock, they could not save,

The life that was, now no more there!

20^th November 2012

From "Life Through a Prism"

Poet: VKN Umasankar

www.vknumasankar.com