My 10th This poem I wrote when I, myself, was in a contemplative mood. A mature poem with, I trust, mature words. Conveying a mature philosophy and espousing a mature theme. Call it "Redemption" or "Return to Innocence", they mean the same. REDEMPTION The return to innocence I ask not a bed of needles and pins Ask I do redemption from me sins Cos tis these sins that cause me hurt And tis this return that leave me unburnt I have been through the pain Stood in the pouring rain Endured the stifling heat Till I felt t’was me dead meat Now I feel in me the devotion In it I feel the redemption It is the return to myself The return to innocence Cos tis in this the innocence That I see my deliverance No more in me the reticence Through His, the Lord’s, benevolence Tis, my friend is the return to innocence Explanation Introduction This poem is about what I refer to as redemption from mistakes / errors / sins committed. It is a return to a state of innocence from a state of possible guilt after realization occurs of one’s mistake or committing an error. I believe it is only those who realize that they have made a mistake or committed an error who can seek redemption; return to innocence. This poem is similar to the training and development concepts of learning and development practiced in companies. The poem is defined in it’s sub-title “return to innocence” which refers to that phase of life, happening every now and then, where one sits back & thinks about his past; recent or distant. It is a contemplative state of mind where one goes back in time & assesses all that he has done, or not done, and seeks to be redeemed from the sins / mistakes he has committed. This, in application, is done periodically, repeatedly; Where the person seeking redemption unlearns, or undoes, his misjudgements, his errors, his mistakes in speech & actions and returns (seeks to return) to the stage just before when he made the mistake, in the context of the state of mind. It is that stage, just prior to any action or spoken word, that one feels a sense of innocence; a lack of decisiveness where one contemplates on what to do next. At that stage is the mind in a majority state of innocence. It is a stage one seeks to return to, when distraught or hurt or sad or guilty of sin; it is at that stage (state of mind) one can hope for redemption from all the wrong done. The final message of this poem is that pain, suffering, hollowness are all results of one’s own deeds. We suffer not because someone cast a spell on us but because of, and only, what we do. 1st stanza Here the seeker of redemption is at the initial stages where he says to The Lord that he is tired & hurt by the pins and needles (a euphemistic reference) caused by his sins. He states that it is these sins that have caused him hurt and that a return from these sins (a redemption) that will cleanse his wounds. 2nd stanza The reference to the pouring rain and the stifling heat is to offer a physical connotation to the pain one has been through, and is going through. Man tends to hurt himself and others, physically or emotionally, betray others, cheat, commit sins or murder and so on. The poem being about redemption, this paragraph refers to the stage where he suffers due to his own doing. And, therefore, he renders himself “dead meat”, like an animal killed or a human physically hurt, after enduring all the pain and suffering. 3rd stanza This is the next stage subsequent to the committing of mistakes and so on, when one starts his recovery, both from the wrongdoing and the suffering arising out of it. The start of redemption from sins, mistakes and the like, I believe, is caused by a pristine devotion to the one God we all believe in; an apology of sorts and a stage where one starts to set right the wrongs. Pure, uninfluenced, unbiased & bereft of everything sans the devotion itself, when man stands naked, metaphorically, in front of a benign God and seeks to be brought back to the to an earlier stage of purity, he feels a return. He feels redeemed from his wrongdoings; a release from the shackles of guilt arisen from his sins. He returns, in essence, to himself, which here needs to be understood as the God within him. 4th stanza In the last paragraph, the man who is speaking to the Lord through this poem, states that it is the return to his inner self that he is delivered from inactivity, delusion and a lack of clarity in thoughts and deeds. He states that this is caused by the reciprocation of God, in the form of God’s benevolence and forgiveness, for his return to God and righteousness. In essence, the return to innocence refers to man’s falling back upon his Eternal Father in times of distress like how a child comes running back to it’s mother when confronted by something unknown or scary. © Bharat Srinivas, 2012
Posted on: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 06:04:16 +0000
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