Poems of Jayan KC Battle

Battle

Jayan K Cherian

Virility

is the loneliest

and wildest

fierceness

in the map

of emotions

or wars.

After each rape

my virility

stands erect

against

the spirituality

of procreation....

When each mating

becomes a battle....

The well, filled with the tears

of a girl who cried away

her lust-less adolescence,

for me

to drown myself.

When I rise

after water-sports

I pluck out the virility

that has split itself and bloomed

into Creation

Preservation

and Dissolution

and make a trident out of it....

Sitting in the lotus pose

on a moist woman-skin

I begin my tapas*

sprouting Sitas**

in a plough-furrow of granny’s yarn

and propagating

tales of their chastity

untouched by fire.

I begin the tapas

to become the Lord of the Union

of mating and battles....

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*Tapas is the penance sages perform to attain enlightenment.

*.Allusion to the Ramayana story.