How Far Will You Go? Poem by RAJ VIKRAM

How far will you go
You may not know the
power of my eyes.
they can decipher
the undecipherable
when it is about you.
And you are incarcerated
in the recesses of my mind.


You can go and feel
that you have moved
beyond my limits
But do you know
how powerful my eyes are.
Like the eye of a microscope
I will trace you out
however insignificant time
may seek to make you.
And the memory of me
will hold on to you like
a clutch of straw.


I am like a satellite hovering
above the earth up
above in the infinite space
And no corner in the world
is beyond my eyes.


And who can fathom
the distances to this mind
can travel in pursuit of you
And I needn't make use
of my felicities when it's you.
As you are always within.



Where can you go
I can see you in absence
Presence needn't be physical
at all when it is you.
When it is you
transience has no meaning.


The more you move away
the closer you get to me
I wish to become the world
And it is no task when
you are the world itself
How far you can go
You are within
always within