| In the Playing of Sarod (1969) |
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(from Beauty, Be My Brahman, 2004) |
How to make Anguish from a string?
In music moksha-bound,
A soft scream
Alone in time,
Inkling of each and all.
I find it in the steadying of a tone,
- The act of steadying,
Crossing the bridge,
That harbours consonance,
Reaching purity,
Claiming the peak
That raises my cry
Up towards absence
To be lost in silence,
Perfect in silence…
Can opposites merge?
Only in the reflected melody of the stars,
The moon, the sun expiring,
The whimper of the vastness
Between mountain and the plain –
Songs of origins again.