An evocative poem by Amrita, exclusively for Different Truths.

“Taranamah”, the stellar directory
Hark-Ye charted his course by,
made a spectacular error!
A once in zillennium parabolic curve,
That steered his ship of dreams straight
Out of subspace.

The domain where
Pure thought reigned,
Into inter-galactic space
Where flesh, bone and blood
Forged from stellar dust
Was entirely possible.

It was horrendous
Fall
A come down
Beyond all shame.
To eat, drink and breathe,
Oh! The horror,
To feel, to sweat,
To procreate, on
This dust laden
Terrestrial ball.
 
Before we had maggot
Infested bodies,
We were light,
Sparkles of enlightenment
That rode dust motes.
Peans were we
Cognate of all subjects.

We were vivid visualisers
Transgressors of our own
Boundaries and limitations,
We had indeed created
Humanity as hypothesis
of non-viability,
Teleological abortive causation
In abstract.

Thus was in agreement
With So,
It was unanimous between Therefore
And because
Reason pitched in with lengthy dissertations
Humankind would be an abomination.
Poetaster, Eros, Mythos conspired as
Logos made a decision.
Logic could not be in error.
But Anomaly arose and
So, the Inevitable happened,
Taranamah was corrupted
By of all things,
Reasonable doubt and supposition.

The storyteller and bard
Of Impossible notions
Had their way
At last.

We fell
From our high forefathers
Our Glorious past,
Into the strange, contradictory
Land of the Living.
Souls cocooned in stardust.

The rain fell on our skin
Which burnt
Tears trickled from eyes
That was stupefied
When Eves’ fingers
Tenderly wiped them away.
Thus,
Lustily
We fell into
Humanity and Love.

Picture design by Anumita Roy, Different Truths

Amrita Valan

Amrita Valan holds a master’s degree in English literature and has worked in BPOs, as a content creator, and as a receptionist at a five-star hotel. She loves life, tumbles headfirst into it, and observes it. She has written over a thousand poems on love, spirituality, family, religion, current affairs, human rights, short stories, rhymes, and tales for children. She’s from Kolkata and is a mother of two little boys.