Those looks, O dear, rippling
From the brilliance of puffy eyes,
Spilling over your goggles
Settled on the shapely nose-ridge,
Have made their way,
Through my heart’s softness,
To my self which has grown
Tenderer towards illusions
In the same way as I have
Towards all that mattered
And made essence of life.
Your looks have retold
That at the end of the day
What you hold as difference
Between truth and illusion
Is just your mind’s creation.
(written by PC BODH )
Author's Notes/Comments:
written for me by New Delhi poet PC BODH "poem was in reply to a photo I had sent to him of myself he then went on to say To me you, without your looks, woke to the question of illusion and reality. " he went on to explain Here I really mean that though by this time form has less meaning than earlier, yet I found in this case the same effect as if would have in early youth, and then the realty that illusion and form both are same to feelings. Obviously, dear A veteran being made to sit up and write.That is why I said the difference between the illusion and reality disappeared. You are such a fine person."
this is a beautiful piece that explains so much and recognizes life for what it is..