Saturday, October 2, 2010
Postscript to 'Thanksgiving Prayer'
It has happened after a patch of sunshine and rains. Words had twittered down the sky or crept along with the sun these last few days, weeks, months. And today it happened. It slipped out of the fingers as if they are the drops of blood from the accidentally tampered artery. It settled on the page, the page blotting with those words. And as soon as they are no more but a blot or a patch on that now non-blank page, you realize, they are the impure blood drops. They needed to be exhumed so that you redeem them and free their dead spirits. but you are no Christ or Rama. Your touch can not undo and redo. Yours is not 'The Word'. Yours is but the words that flow. Like the blood in your veins. Sometimes they spill on your neat blank pages. Darkening the under-eyes with a gross soot that you call the past. Level the dust. Pave a road. Make another scratch. And then leave it to the winds to blow them away this Fall.
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So many allegories :) You are referring to the creative process of writing, editing, re-writing, throwing away, hating it, loving it, - all the multitude of feeling you get about youe own cration - isn't it? Did i get it right?
:) you did ... that is also the basis of life lived from a day to another ... dnt you think so?
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