My Wish
I want to be a natural poet like you
But always fail to make me such a great quill !
Don’t know how you give waves in your words ,
Uplifting you self to the spiritual poetic place.
Only I staring at your poetic fervour like a simple deer.
I want to be a natural poet like you
But always fail to rise my words high to touch the sky
Don’t know, how wings of your good feelings you fly
And convert your emotions to a divine thought.
I only take fragrance of your poetic garlands blowing in the air.
I want to be a natural poet like you .
Like a hammer, I always practice my mind in pen and papers,
My fingers look for every word in dictionary like a school child.
But how you find your words and shape them to a fine devotional lyric ,
I’m surprised at and looking something in your rhythms.
My small world of words is so empty that no shower of God falls.
But I have a faith in God, for he creates me in this world as His great art.
So, I know those sacred names of Bishnu – Jyoti – Bhupen.
I know those spiritual souls of Iqbal- Rabindra- Bankim.
And I know such devoted art figures as Lio nar do, Pablo Picasso,Dante, Petrarca also, and feel proud.
Never I feel any worry, for like me all women can’t become a poet like you.
But like God, a woman can give birth a great poet by sacrificing her feminity
By struggling bravely with her own destiny she gives a beautiful word to her children.
Whether as a mother or a woman I ever worship you,
For you born through me only but from God genuinely.
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©Sumi Kapahera
All rights reserved, 2022.NB:
Bishnu : Bishnu Prasad Rabha
Jyoti : Jyoti Prasad Agarwal
Bhupen : Dr Bhupen Hazarika
All are great figures of Assam.
