Sleep-walking

Suffering began before the birth,

while I was forming in my mother’s womb

When she was weeping

I wept together with her soul

One cloudy night the life began

Since that very moment
I betrothed with the death

as the every child who was born in this earth
the world blindfolded me
to be in their culture

Thus I became a blind

Embracing the life as it was

I had to fulfill the entire requirement

The law and the precepts

made me a devotee

as many others I was fallen asleep

until waken up by the invisible voice
The moment has come

To know - "who I am?"
My soul is leaping

My mind is weeping

My body is sleep walking

29. 12. 2018 – Mallika M Bandara