I've Been Looking For Someone Crazy For A Long Time Poem by Rati Saxena

I've been looking for someone crazy for a long time
the one who can burn his hut to light up the neighbors'
the one who can give rest to the wings by making a nest of air
the one who can pamper the seedlings so they may grow into
trees
Sometimes I do get to have a glimpse of that crazy one
but never really found a completely mad person
Ants have expounded to me that a lot among us are crazy
but crazy about compliance alone
There is no such mad among us who can dethrone the decree
and refuse unhesitatingly to drown in honeyed words
In the world of crows, there is a crazy caw caw
They can be seen, rubbing their beaks, on the TV screen every
day
There used to be once in the human world some mad people,
who
were sometimes crucified by other humans, sometimes pushed
from the mountain,
and sometimes buried in the pile of gold…
The madness is gradually erased from the human genes…
And I am out to find the mad one in this dark world
even though I too am not completely mad..

Translated by Shelly Bhoil