REFUGE

Boundless I fly to the height of the blue sky

Fearless I dive to the core of the deep sea

Smiling eternally with my heart content

I break all shackles, just to be me.

I sing a melody, straight from my soul

I love the mountains for the echo they give

Aimless I wander a thousand miles

Seeking refuge in the dream I live.

I wash my failures clean

Rubbing all sins off the broken path

Free again I breathe afresh

hoping to escape thy mighty wrath

though I know not thy bid any more

that for long did confine my ambit in its heart

the raw soil is now washed offshore  

as the mighty river, soulfully played its part

a detached kite following the wind's end

  a bird of passage on its way to a seasonal abode

homeless, yet a blissful nomad I am

seeking refuge in the fable untold

With no time to live

and no place to die

the plethora of unfulfilled wishes

no longer makes me sigh

the shackles I bore

shall have imprints for a while

on the wounded body and the soul in exile

But my footprints thou shalt not find

on the path beaten by umpteen feet

my fragrance shall no longer adorn

thy fettered, powerless entity

and though groundless might seem my vision

and lunatic, some of thy followers

might love to call me there

I am content with this petty refuge,

 this ambrosial breath

and thou need not wonder where.