Ravindranath Kunnath.\Pilgrimage

Ravindranath Kunnath.

Pilgrimage

It was a day.. Shadows creep into the heart of the light. That day, Winds blew with heat all along its path. An old father that day decided to go for a pilgrimage The destination undecided. He reached in a railway station expecting a train at the time of his arrival. Yet the destination undecided. Shadows followed him and rested in the form of the mount of coal ,neglected by the authorities after the arrival of disel and later electric trains. One train awaiting passengers in the platform Ticket counter closed. The station as a whole look like a skeleton of the past days. He entered into the platform. Engine in front exhibit symptoms of suffocation. Loneliness all over the surroundings. He wished,oh!it is the forgotten dreams , And it is here and wait for me to bless! He also thought,this wrap up silence,here to remember my life , A life untrained and futile... I am here only for wasting the precious air...

He admitted the loneliness all over the platform. He saw a little face in a compartment near to the bench he was seated at that time. It was a lovely face.. A glittering face unseen around the world of him. He walked near to him briskly . She was little ,innocent and had a holy face. The shadows there feared to approach her. Dear baby He inquired Who are you... She replied I am with you ,but you don't care or looked at me. He looked all over with a different culture. Really he was sitting under a great banyan tree The deserted railway station ,the train and the babe all are resurrecting images All are illustrations of my futile life.. Pilgrimage Undecided When life anched in the stagnant sea of life The last words of the babe he remember You don't allow me to alight from the compartment Here unholy loneliness alive with shadows. Stand up The little girl appeared witb a shinning halo. He respond but the girl disappeared.

(C) Ravindranath Kunnath.