A LETTER FROM BUDDHA TO CONFUCIUS IN AN URGENCY OF COVID -19A Poem by Anurag SharmaA LETTER FROM BUDDHA TO CONFUCIUS IN AN URGENCY OF COVID -19
Dear Luang Phi,
it is 4:00a.m. And April, 3. The tenth moon"a shut argument begins to wind up and shy away with stars sinking one by one like hypothesizes. A dark lull looms over the sleeping city. And I sitting in this Vihara think of Lu, of you, Bhante! Your wisdom, your words, your wanderings! lost into a sty. A saint is a projectile thrown into ad infinitum into an endless sky. How comes it, then, that the parabola turns into hyperbola. Kung Fu! were you the one who cared more for the human beings than the burnt stables unthinking of the horses, the centaurs. Were you the one who invented nothing, yet a transmitter. Your disciples and descendants transmitting a horrid hell for humanity. A shameless dragon spitting infernal phlegm invisible" A choked city mews and whimpers in a coma. The bang at Wuhan rent apart the sky from horizon to horizon. The Astroid 7853 has hit the pleura of April unsinging the songs of Spring. Bhante! You envisioned and your progeny bartered for an autumn"all pervading when they fall like leaves, lone in isolation. Ages ago, my substances"Kashyapa Matanga, Dharmaratna met with your shadow"Zi Gong on the banks of Hwang Ho, exchanging formal greetings, perennial good and the analects. Shadows after shadows after lengthened under a suffocating sun lost in the labyrinths of all that is not Confucius. Bhante! Could we weep together in isolation, though for what we together had dreamt and been denied. A thin crack in the South Wall Frieze of the Supreme court is a chink in the façade of this Vihara. Beyond this crevice, the birdling of a sun sings in. A tear-drop from your half-shut eyes floating down the Yellow R, down to Brahamputra"moists my cheeks. The Vihara is awakened! © 2023 Anurag Sharma |
StatsAuthorAnurag SharmaAjmer, Rajasthan, IndiaAboutAnuraag Sharma is a bilingual poet and creative writer from Ajmer, India. A retired Professor of English, he has to his credit nearly 28 books, including collections of poems, short stories, critical .. more..Writing
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