THE MORTAL THOUGHTS

THE MORTAL THOUGHTS

BY

S. MAHESHKUMAR

Thoughts are generated in the self

As a kind of polishing the mind

All the residues thus accumulated

Are gathered in various forms

That form can be another self

It can also be written script

There is an equality between dead thoughts and dead people

Dead thoughts are packed in book-coffins

They are buried in library-cemeteries

And they are subjected to innumerable autopsies by the doctors of letters

They decay as royal food for the book worms

As we are to the scavengers, et al

The world is a product of thoughts

And they die always to bestow us eternity

—S. Maheshkumar.

{Composed on 21st April 2004 at 12.10 PM, Indian Standard Time.}