Foolish, not Social

Sankha Ghosh

 Returning home do you feel you talked too much?
 Cleverness, do you feel very tired?

 Do you feel like sitting quiet in the blue cottage
 Burning incense, after a bath, on return?

 Do you feel like wearing a human body at last
 After taking off the demon's dress?

 Liquid time carries moisture into the room.
 Do you feel like an ananta-shayana on her floating raft?

 If you feel like that, come back. Cleverness, go away.
 Does it really matter?
 Let them say foolish, let them say unsocial.

Commentary

Note: ananta-shayana: Vishnu sleeping on the cosmic serpent Ananta.

I like people, and enjoy being outdoors. But on some weekends, I just long to curl up with a book.. and have a cup of tea. Very antisocial and very foolish - but quite enjoyable :-)

— Sarah Korah

A brief bio of Sankha Ghosh can be found at
http://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/sankhaghosh.html


The Wondering Minstrels, poem #1765 · 22 September 2005

Guest poem submitted by Sarah Korah

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