Taste For Tomorrow By Jayanta Mahapatra Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Taste for Tomorrow
Taken from Waiting (1979)
Is a Puri poem
Leading to the temple street
To faith and doubt
To nowhere

Full of faith and belief
And skepticism,
Faith in doubt,
Doubt in faith,
An Oriya he
Looking unto,
But Christian too

As and when
He talks of lepers
And this marauding
Our belief
So strongly held
To reason,
Why are there,
Does God not?

But Mahapatra as an Oriya
Is of Jagannath,
Marking the Great Temple
With the lotus
Adorning the roof over
Caved out or fitted with stones,
A motif mythical.