I am
Because we are
And my dear you
Says Ubuntu !
I came
All innocent
Without past lament
As a moon crescent
I came
With creative courage
To light up earth
Her days and nights
With joy and mirth
I came to share
All the heavenly ware
How could I ?
Be happy
When all others
My sisters and brothers
Treading hungry and sad
Did I come ?
To compete
With others
My sisters and brothers
Denying them
Without shame
Mother Earth’s ware
Coveting their legitimate share
Hadn’t been
Gifts unseen
Bestowed and given
Like benevolent bacteria hidden
Energy ATM in my every body cell
Where pious Mitochondria dwell
As cosmic cooperation warriors
Truly as cosmic goodness carriers.
I am a cosmic cooperative
I am a cosmic narrative
Born of evolutionary hope and charity
O, Ubuntu
Let me discover anew my humanity.
©Bhagirath Choudhary
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November 04, 2019
Bhagirath Choudhary is part of the category of people who look at life in an amalgam of colors, dreams, sounds, senses, but, above all, has the rare ability to share them through their language: rhymes, lyrics and figures of speech.
The poet Bhagirath Choudhary says what he thinks. He is a painter who paints his vision of the world, and in his hands is the power. The sheet is the support, but its strongest weapon remains the word. He is the only one who can capture the oxymoron of life, the pain of a tear, the intensity of a smile, the love itself, he dresses worlds and dreams.
His soul is like a violin. Once its strings are delicately touched, music is able to awaken emotions through a pure symphony, transform feelings into absolute knowledge and knowledge into feelings. But the fragility of the soul determines the possessor to dress it in a rhyming robe, a coat of verses capable of retaining silence and calming the tumult of the heart by sharing thoughts. Poetry represents the way to speak one’s own truth, to escape from everyday life and the way in which readers soothe their souls by immunizing them to the decay of society. This is for the poet a bridge between reality seen as a contradictory mixture of happiness and pain and the sublime universes in which he finds refuge. He offers us a white sheet and a pen of a poet. It will shape our world because poetry is basically the protest of emotions, the art capable of offering the human eye the perfection of imperfect things, refuges in which peace and calm dominate.
Bhagirath Choudhary is able to create worlds and universes!
Lenuș Lungu
Taifas literary magazin
World Literary Forum for Peace and Human Rights 