Survival

Survival
 
When your body starts to revolt
With candle light protests
All over,
Start reading fairy tales
And scary scriptures
Only to find what is enlightenment.
 
Once your body got blistered
In and out the other end,
You will be taught about
Lighting up and enlightenment.
 
You will be taught
To observe your body
And every other body
In a different light
Hotter and drier.
 
You will be taught
To read your body
And every other body
As the abode of God,
So, keep it chaste.
 
You will be taught
To decode your body
And every other body
As the one that is mortal,
So, keep it detached.
 
You will be taught
To sense your body
And every other body
As besetting fire inside
So, douse it with prayers
Incessantly.
 
You will be taught
To watch your body
And every other body
As mirroring what is inside
So, don’t go anywhere
Searching it outside.
 
You will be taught
To start thinking
When ‘You’ and ‘I’
Stay one and the same,
Why should waste
A touch and feel
So, trash your anatomy texts
That talks about heterogeneities.
 
Once you learnt
What is light
Beyond electromagnetic waves,
Close your books
And seal your candles.
 
Once you learnt
How to sit cross-legged
Or how to stand on knees,
Heave a sigh
At the light, inside out
And watch your life
Dark, as a constant revolt
Or a shadow fight
Until it is no more.