MOMENT
I could be that moment
When life seems to begin
And end,
I hold in me the immortal woe
Of the human race,
A canvas carrying sketches
Of man’s undying wishes;
I might be one moment of mystery
That secrets mankind’s dark history;
I am a moment molten
And a moment frozen,
One of chaos and creation,
I could be a speck of dust
Holding inside me a world gained
And a world lost;
I could be holding the whole cosmos
I could be the stasis, the rush;
I could be one endless moment of ecstasy,
Or of eternal pain,
I could be that moment when life ends
And begins again!
Snehaprava Das is an academic, translator and writer. She has multiple translations, three collections of stories and five anthologies of poetry to her credit. She has been published in Indian Literature, Oxford University Press, Speaking Tiger, Penguin and Black Eagle Books.
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