Beyond A Tracing Poem by M D Dinesh Nair

Beyond a tracing how can you be there
If you are somewhere there around us?
I find not even an apparition assuring me
Of your tamed or wild presence in any shade
As you have never been there.
They call it inability to see!

Soaring to the altitudes hitherto unreached
In fact my mind has traveled in search of you.
I have traveled into reason and fact
Dismissing the fiction told since the times crude.
And your absence has really undone me!
They say it is insensibility of a kind!

I thought you would be there
Oh, my mind thou art right!
'He is not there', you ever whisper into my ears.
I had a glimmer of hope about you, I often thought.
You could have been there.
They say my eyes have a cataract of the kind!

I find the eccentric crowd cheering your image
My people around me are they!
They are visualising you with aids many
And a dejection begins to embrace me.
In fact I am crushed by them.
They think they have microscopic eyes!

The flames of the true fire lit by time and reason
Will never flicker and you cannot be around it.
The smoke may wither and die later,
And my brethren may see your silhouetted shadow
Spread all across that sky that has clouds!
They are more in number and that matters a lot!

An inferno is there now
And I feel the stench of a crowd burning.
In the pyre of doctrines and sermons age old
And its heap of ash will soon remain.
But beyond a tracing you should n`t have been.
They say you are traced from fossils as well!

Hundred reasons housed in my small head
Have no freaks nor any apprehensions
I have not failed in my search
And I cannot fantasize on still
As you are not there.
Let them think as they like!

I cannot be that proverbial blind man either
Searching for the black cat
Which is not there in the dark room.
Beyond a tracing you could have never been
I know it for certain.
There are many blind men around me!