Kill Your Darling! Poem by TD. Kumar

Kill your darling!

Extreme love, often has a violent ending
Othello is a prototype who, in a fit of jealousy, kills his darling!
Strange that memorable love turns so easily into violent frenzy
This flip- flop is normal feature of a lover's fantasy.

This is because most of love is more possessive than committed
It is bonded by strings positively or negatively attached
Though, ‘killing' one's darling, has an odor of horror
We have countless repetition of the same bloody error!

Only solution is a new meaning of love
More of unilateral exuding of fragrance than dominating Love
Love is so important that we can't be really detached and be loveless
It is a tender and caring necklace.

In one sense we must kill our attachment
With a person or thing, solution or decision, our infatuation
With alluring features, a paralyzing obsession
In creativity of art and science be must kill our ‘darlings' the imagination's febrile figment.

Emotionally attached to mother goddess Kali was the sage.
Ram Krishna who was committed to reach "Nirgun Nirvikalpa" stage
While meditating, Kali appeared live and the sage related to her like a child
He is guru advised him to cut Kali by the sword's sharp edge.

Disturbed, he asked his guru, where is the sword located?
"At the same place where the Kali image is sourced and situated"
He asked "when mother appears I forget myself and how can I kill my mother! "
"I will remind you by hitting at right movement, to kill "your darling mother! "

Very soon guru hit him and sage past in to "Nirgun Nirvikalpa zero/infinite level"
Thus it may be necessary to "kill your darling" to reach a higher level
It may be painful but essential to transcend the existential!