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Final Chapter in the History of Atonement

By Saranyan BV

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Imagine a situation, 

where Earth instructs the gravitational force
to stop wasting its energy
holding together earthlings…
Earth is not God,
yet it speaks against God’s own subjects.
The earthlings comprised of us --
we always come as primary --
then the animals, the flora
-- the trees, plants the shrubs --
and the pale green cloud of fungus,
the water, the seas, the oceans,
the rivers, the lakes with or without bunds,
dams, reservoirs, dead tree-trunks sprouting from under,
the loose sand, the tight sand, the clay, the quartz, rocks
tnd the angry embryo of core --
the magma, anything in that or any other order.

Imagine a situation,
where the gravitational force decides
to stop wasting energy…
We would all be flying -- away from one another,
trying to wrest air in our lungs, those of us living beings,
try and find happiness for the left-over period of our life --
which is the primary purpose of everything,
of being alive, of breathing and of being. In that short time,

we delight in listing our achievements,
listing them as pinnacles to the sun,
to the moon and to that God, who has no ear for trivia,
and to God’s keeper of records,
who watches earthlings disintegrate. Some atone, atone and atone--
atoning for everything, in no particular order,
for the fear of truth behind some halfwits propounding
that death would place us at the crossroad,
between hell and paradise in which we no longer have a say.

Saranyan BV is poet and short-story writer, now based out of Bangalore. He came into the realm of literature by mistake, but he loves being there. His works have been published in many Indian and Asian journals. He loves the works of Raymond Carver.

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