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This post is written to follow the theme of experience with ‘Encountering the Other in Language / Place’ on the BluePrintReview Blog carnival(http://www.blueprintreview.de/lapjoin.htm), emphasizing on the other, and in the process of seeking, a different perspective evoked where the other-ness could not be found.



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Where do I belong?
What place, what language?
What is foreign to me?

I am here
Always was,
I am ancient
I was a volcano, a boulder
A fish, a sparrow or a squirrel
Today, I am a girl

You make me bow
Attach me with a custom God
Fence me, limit me
Introduce me to fear
Free me, let me fly
I am a cloud
A rootless, homeless floater
Of no shape, no race, no color
I just change, stay forever

Don’t tie me
With your sacred thread
No sprinkling of holy water
From the purest world
I have emerged
Been tied to the strongest
Chord of umbilical
Into the holiest water of the womb, I have immersed
I am pure as a prayer


I have traveled
From nothing to nothing
Everything to everything
To commune and consummate
I will be here, never dissipate

I exist, raw, pure and divine
What’s there to define?
I am eternal, you can’t confine
What could be foreign to me, you opine
The colors of the flame emanating from your pyre
Would be same as mine

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  1. indu chhibber1:02 AM

    Excellent,very well said.

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  2. Meenaxi10:42 PM

    Hey Indu,

    Thanks for your kind words.

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  3. Avargal Unmaigal12:29 PM

    nicely written

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  4. Saher8:28 PM

    Loved it, every word of it! You write so so well!!

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  5. Meenaxi3:17 AM

    and I loved your comments...Thanks Saher.

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  6. AnshuMalika5:43 PM

    Remarkable, Astonishing....every single word is clear and crisp.well written.

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