DRAUPADI - 79

  

Prafulla Kumar Mohanty's 

DRAUPADI - 79

Draupadi’s Dilemma

 

Heaven Hell  Light Dark Father Mother

Dry Wet Big Small  -  everything in pairs

like Health Sickness Joy Sorrow Birth Death!

Who created these contrastive pairs

are these all uncaused miracles as God is,

did God create Himself out of Nothing?

How can nothing create anything, How can

void be creative space without driving Energy:

And what is this Energy? Draupadi

leaned against the wall in her chamber.

Rise and Fall, Birth and Death are both

created by the same Energy? But why?

If life has antilife for balance, harmony

why create life at all? If Energy is

the beginning of everything, there must be

Anti Energy? Is the body energized by mind

ultimately to cease half way from home?

The body is nothing, a lump of flesh, all say

but the fight of life is only for the body,

why put it to the sword of the deceitful  -

again Draupadi felt a surge of anguish

crawling up her limbs numbing her senses.

Everything falls on the earth save fire

which rises up from the earth, I am fire

the air spreads me all around and over

I consume everything - the most lovely flower

nature's brand of symmetry, colour smell

a balance of all senses in harmony,

Fire reduces the beauty, fragrance, evocative

spheres of agreeable emotions, into ashes;

The earth receives the scattered cinders

raises them again to lush virgin wonders.

But war! It's all  blood bones mangled heaps

of bravery, heroic triumph in forlorn hopes   -

Oh! Will the oceans drown the earthly horror!