Vegetarianism Poem by Upendra Majhi

The seed of extreme trouble
hidden in the vegetarianism,
tell me how, asked Gaulin
Mokshya seeker, whether single
or a full fledged father,
rescinds meat,
rescinds sword,
rescinds mother, birth giver,
rescinds wife-love giver
rescinds offsprings -
in the heart of his heart,
is deep seated the nirvana,
ultimate truth,
not the immediate one,
not the one that one sees
near ones door
like a black crow on the branch,
the truth that wakes him up,
the truth that reminds him of his
utter mundaneness
that is not palatable for
vegetarian's heightened moral and spiritual soul.
Wake up in the dead of the night,
at the ripe age of sixty,
when lust is gone, libido is gone
, thrust is over,
and walk down the village path,
seek the ultimate truth,
single handed, no encrumbrance of mother, wife and child,
Eat single, live single
fully unencumbered,
the scripture is with you,
Ganas, the devotees are with you,
discard the animal blood,
that is sin,
that is proscribed,
he argued in one single breath
as if he saw a ghost
I smiled away all his harangue.
but not what he said now.
here comes a man,
with another scripture in hand,
steed on horse, black and white,
sword in the hand, left and right,
blood letting, well sanctioned,
his wife, mother, girls are in his tent.
he must go back with food in tact.