Quaking Floors

Quaking Floors

A Poem by Swagato Saha
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As Freud identifies the Unconscious as a site of resistance to rational knowledge, could the same also hold true for the (modern) Subject's (unconscious) belief in God? Can we be truly godless?

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Why was it so the infant eye,
Midst dry summons of nameless sense,
On the ashen face did decide?
Through guarded doors and curtains tense-

Whence all stony figures became!
From phantom wheres and times unfound;
The dim-lit gazes unsurely framed,
Spill onto the silent surrounds...

And glared the ghastly crimson trails!
Veiled in clouds of incense savour;
While manic chants to metals played,
Their heads held to the quaking floors...

(Why is it now thus reasoned-I,
Yet quiver to its banal repeat?
Yet trace thy call to ends of time?
...Plagued by silent phantasies.)

© 2024 Swagato Saha


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Added on January 28, 2024
Last Updated on December 21, 2024
Tags: Atheism, Belief, Occult, Modernity, Unconscious

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Swagato Saha
Swagato Saha

Kolkata, India



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