A New Beginning Poem by Ramakrushna Sahu

Tired of everything
Alone on a lonely river bank
Know not for whom I was waiting
To receive or to give myself up

The cool breeze was playing
My gray hairs with its
invisible fingers,
The morning sunlight
with my bare body,
The birds and the running stream
The dancing leafs of trees
Were encouraging me
to join the chorus

Time has not come for retreat
they said
But it was like a lullaby
Pulling me into a sweet sleep,
I was giving up myself
To become someone among them
A celebration in unreserved surrender

I was still there but not as myself
As if I am the song they sing
The smoothness of touch they give
I have lost my body and
The castle the mind built
It was not an end
But altogether a new beginning.