The Superfluous Quest For Absolute Perfection

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खूब ऊँचा एक जीना साँवला

उसकी अंधेरी सीढ़ियाँ…

वे एक आभ्यंतर निराले लोक की।
एक चढ़ना औ’ उतरना,
पुनः चढ़ना औ’ लुढ़कना,
मोच पैरों में
व छाती पर अनेकों घाव।
बुरे-अच्छे-बीच का संघर्ष

वे भी उग्रतर

अच्छे व उससे अधिक अच्छे बीच का संगर
गहन किंचित सफलता,
अति भव्य असफलता
…अतिरेकवादी पूर्णता

की व्यथाएँ बहुत प्यारी हैं…

ज्यामितिक संगति-गणित
की दृष्टि के कृत

भव्य नैतिक मान

आत्मचेतन सूक्ष्म नैतिक मान…
…अतिरेकवादी पूर्णता की तुष्टि करना

कब रहा आसान

मानवी अंतर्कथाएँ बहुत प्यारी हैं!!

रवि निकलता
लाल चिन्ता की रुधिर-सरिता
प्रवाहित कर दीवारों पर,
उदित होता चन्द्र
व्रण पर बांध देता
श्वेत-धौली पट्टियाँ
उद्विग्न भालों पर
सितारे आसमानी छोर पर फैले हुए
अनगिन दशमलव से
दशमलव-बिन्दुओं के सर्वतः
पसरे हुए उलझे गणित मैदान में
मारा गया, वह काम आया,
और वह पसरा पड़ा है…
वक्ष-बाँहें खुली फैलीं
एक शोधक की।

Translation:

A shadowy, tall staircase
And its dark stairs
Belonging to
An intimate, strange world

Climb up, climb down
Climb up again, and tumble down
Sprained feet, and the chest
Stained with wounds
The struggle between good and evil
And even more extreme
The struggle between the good and the better

A tiny, concentrated success
A magnanimous failure
… the agonies of
superfluous completionism
Are quite lovely

A geometrically symmetric pairing-
Grandiose superficial moral values
With microscopic innate ones.
To satiate excessive completionism
Has never been easy
The subtexts of the human soul
Are quite lovely indeed

The sun rises, and lets flow
The river of its red, caring rays
On the walls
The moon is troubled
And covers his sores
With its bright, white bandages.
On anxious speartips are
the stars scattered across the heavenly cloth
Like infinite decimals converging upon
Decimal points scattered across
this tangled mathematical field.
(Where) he was killed, he was martyred
and he lies splayed
his hands spread apart, his chest thrust out
like that of an explorer.

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from Brahmarakshas, released September 6, 2016

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