Tuesday, November 14, 2017

The Old Learned Man

When sailed through the chronicle of seasons lost,
The planets aligned arbitrarily enwreathing smoke & haze;
Walked with his son where boat was moored,
Sack on his shoulders, neither had desire nor was amazed.

Not will which adrift his flesh eventuality compelled him,
Unanchored his boat towards horizon on the land where grace rhyme;
The vilified grit and wisdom he dwelled with for ages,
Unlearned suppressed truth harboured him as meek with time.

Sailing he conveyed & collated thesis which his son transcribed,
The whispers & his chants floated with wind & ocean;
Leaning on the mast discerned the main-stay,
Singing hymns wrapping thoughts towards horizon looked his son.

Unanticipated, storm thwacked with lightning! Yearnings capsized,
Unconscious his son drifted towards the shore;
Awakened by the touch of grit desolated he searched,
The voyage floated, but the old learned man was no more.

© Pranav Chaturvedi 2017