Reborn
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By Dhruv Pillai
We cannot see beyond the realm of words
Everything is defined.
Everything is restricted.
To attempt a description
Is to employ these explanations
To form new flawed connections
With what is and what can be
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To experience something new
Is something out of the ordinary
And we do not like change
As humans we seek comfort
In the warmth of the known
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And just like a newborn infant
Who is brought into the light
Torn from its warm darkness
Into this harsh reality of life
We too are lost
I feel
In an abyss of unknowns
Spending our waking lives
Searching for a way back
To the very unity
We germinated from
The darkness that was our own
The darkness that envelopes all
The darkness we called home
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So if I were to ask you
To look beyond the very definitions
That have laid the foundation
Of your understanding
Of existence
What would you say to me?
When you are submerged in the silence
Of absolute nothingness
When you no longer have words
But continue to feel
Like the two banks of a river
That are always one but never meet
Infusing with the universe
On this detour to your journey
Tell me
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What would you say
When you lay down the burden
Of a thousand words
And submerge yourself in dadirri
When you let go of today
And return to history
Tell me
What would you say?If I asked you
To plunge into the very blackness
That made you and me?Would you choose to be safe
In your twisted serenity
Or would you forget everything
And be reborn with me?
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