SHE arrives and so have they
The drums roll, the conch blows
Multitude take a solemn bow
Incense announces autumn is here.
There SHE stands tall on faith’s dais
The clay eyes still and silent
Life evokes colourful prayers
For those who survived another day.
Mothers all around seek answer
The question plagues their soul like cancer
Each breath is a burden of their pain
The price of a smile is not lost in vain.
Hollow heart hides the little teardrop
Million faces and not one that is her son
She narrates his tale to the vacant chair
A hint of jealousy glistens in Devi’s visage.
Amber is the colour of this season
Salutations for Goddess echo through her courtyard
Drums beat faster, he dances in gay abandon
Guilty each moment of a debt unpaid to the only one.
Deity is the same, prayers have altered
Bangles chime the furtive love stories
Let it rain she orders her quivering lips
Rights vermillion bestow, his death strips.
Lotus after lotus scrambles to adorn Her divinity
Each dream leaves my mother’ sleep empty
Agony would be music if her prayers could be sung
Peace is unfaithful, a secret inked in Durga’s third eye.
- Sutapa Kar
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