-- Lasitha Yasanga
You are not
the you of yesterday
and will not
be you tomorrow
cells die
and are born;
water comes,
water goes,
breath too,
and the
thought-train
and
thought-drain
make, shape
and change
the ‘Opinion
I’;
they come
from unknown body
and to
unknown body move,
some made of
light blue
and some of
mud-night hue:
and so we
stand together now
rub
shoulders with ourselves
selves that
were and selves to be
in
uncomfortable, disconcerting
togethernesses
in
the name of objective
in
the thrill of objection
in
the holy matrimonies of struggle.
You
could do less and so could I
but
we don’t;
sometimes
we make the desert bloom
sometime
we make it bleed
in
our ignorances
and
in the purity of intention.
It’s
good to fight
the
good fight
against
all odds
against
all reason
and
it is good to know the odds
and
be reason-powered too,
for
tear and shout are photo-ops
and
mind is uncapturable.
