Fidelity Poem by RAJ VIKRAM

Emotions once posed
a question to him
to know whether he
was faithful to them.
Answer was hard to come
for he lived with them
since the senses of
him became sensible
on a dateless day in the
unknown and distant past.

He moved ahead through
unregistered days,
he felt obliged
to nothing but his
sweltering emotions always.
He let go everything else
left unattended every baggage
that cried for his glance.

Eternally faithful to his
emotions he had always been,
and his fidelity to them
left scars numerous
in his psyche that
festered with wounds.
Now these emotions
have grown up to pose
a question to him.

He didn't let any answer
emanate from his aching lips.
Bereft of his attention
Emotions crumbled and
oblivion beckoned them.
Without his fidelity
what identity does
these emotions have.
Now they knew their folly
of questioning their master
they joined together
and became servile to him
And his fidelity to them
remained intact as always.