The centers of pilgrimage

(From my poetry Collection 'Signatures')

I don’t know of what kind you are

I don’t know of what kind you are!

I had not begun

or completed

or contemplated even

of any pilgrimage.

I never planned of visiting

either  Kasi where

burnt carcass

and burning carcass float on

or to Hardwar , Rishikesh,

Amarnath and Kedarnath,

where Sadhus threaten

you with beards,

and colourful robes

and without robes

Had you started?

Glad, good news;

Still planning to start

your much dreamily  pilgrimage;

better start;

the future is reaching

when rivers would vanish

where carcass and silt

alone would occupy.

the centers of pilgrimage

where killers and eaters only

would wait for sinners 

and non- sinners

I don’t know of what kind you are!

Vaiyavan