Sujata Achrekar

The Ascetic
They say I've lived a million years...
They say I'll live a million more.
Orange flames
paint my skin...
Camouflaging
the scars beneath.

Somnolent

I see the world

That lies before

'Her' mangled ghats...

The horizon

is on

the brink of decay...

Choked

with vicious

Urbane-ness.

I immerse myself

in Ganga's depths.

Her holiness

Chars my body...

Scalds it,

till I exist no more

The river

still burns

upon my scars - 

Exhuming

dead bodies

from her womb

And - 

My shadow walks away from me
Eclipsing the million years I've lived
Eclipsing the million years I'll live.
©Anukriti Sharma 2012 

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