Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
ODE TO TENDER BREATHtc "ODE TO TENDER BREATH"
Even with my forefathers you stayed
Entwined in my parents too
Descended into my life’s temple, an abode
For you, tender soft and silent,
Breath! key of life, and all actions.
You made my initial cry, a journey’s start
Commencing my life to my parent’s joy
The long wait over, I was a tiny babe
Crying, sucking, puking, kicking, staring
You’ve made me, what I am.
Through a life of events passionate
Steered me, you, in the tempestuous phase
Learning, earning and forming family
In all strife and stress, you lived with me
Turned me into a father, and a father’s father
Unfolding this life, enhancing the completion.
O Breath! These years you’ve been with me
But how it will be all when you depart
Will be just a ripe fruit’s fall, normal
Or a struggle within, with your enemy
That snuffs the spark, with gloom all over
Or will you bring me a chariot ethereal
To lead me on the odyssey to a new world
Ere you depart me, realise me “Soham”, “I am that”