Poetry by Avantika Vijay Singh

MELT AWAY THE BOUNDARIES

See not the blemished skin,

See not the greying hair,

See not the jangling bellies,

Judge not the external appearance

For they are merely illusions...

Where are the boundaries

that divide man from man

but in the shallow pans

of our minds?

What a colossal waste

are these judgements

that birth duality

when in reality

the universe knows only unity!



Melt away the barriers,

for nature knows no walls.

Melt into nature

to dance with the diversity 

in the exuberance of the universe’s

musical extravaganza.

Who can judge 

if a toucan's colours

Are any prettier than a flamingo's?

Or the smell of petrichor finer than aspens'?



Melt away the barriers of the mind.

For they are just illusions...

And find yourself

Lighter…

Released from the burden of judgement.

Find yourself

Floating like 

gold dust on sunbeams,

warm sunshine on a winter morning.

Avantika Vijay Singh is the author of Flowing…in the river of Life and Dancing Motes of Starlight.

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