Legitimacy Poem by RAJ VIKRAM

Being intelligible to oneself
a no mean task itself,
then how flimsy would it be
to make oneself intelligible
to all and sundry.

Legitimacy is being intelligible
to oneself if not time
and again, at least in moments
that fleetingly barge in and then
disappear without a trace.

Illegitimate one will always be,
when allowed to be viewed through
prisms of myriad hues and shapes.
In words, deed, actions strive
to be legitimate for others at one's peril.

Make oneself clear to the being
A lifetime may not be enough
for that, for ephemeral beings.
Convince oneself and take the tug
and move ahead with aloft head.

Transient legitimacy may engulf
one with a pyrrhic sense of comfort.
But within no time one will rue it.
Be intelligible and legitimate
to self, nothing else matters.