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A Plea to Ignorance

Blissful Ignorance,

Your soft lips used to

Kiss the wind around my body,

So I could hold your essence

In both hands.

And it made me forget,

Forget all that I wanted to.

Why is the sweetness of forgotten

Nightmares

Turning into bitterness of

Recollection?

What happened to the sting of

Revulsion

I used to feel in my chest?

Why is fear once again

Fluttering in my heart?

There are no monsoons here,

Then why is the fright returning?

Ignorance, surely,

You are evading my body,

Ah, heartless abandonment, Ignorance!

I have sworn an oath of hate,

I cannot, cannot

Resign this rage,

I cannot, cannot

Retire this odium.

Lovely Ignorance,

I need you just as I need my hatred.

And was it not until yesterday

That I hated him,

And those hands –

Ah, Dear Ignorance,

Descend again

With your soft caresses

And silky murmurs,

Your tinkling laughter in my ears,

And make me forget once more;

Chase away this weakness

And this fear.

And was it not until yesterday

That I hated him,

And those hands?

Why, oh why, precious Ignorance,

Do you not make me forget

The day the monsoons had darkened

The sky of my youth,

And I had hidden in a corner,

Written a poem for him,

And smiled.

You were with me, Ignorance

In that darkness

And I was rocking in your arms.

But it was before hate consumed me

And I saw his face

And felt those filthy hands.

I want you to take me back,

Ignorance,

Hide me in your embrace,

And make me forget

That once my young heart

Had sung a song for him

On the day when

The monsoons were strong,

And I did not know

Of his hands.

I want to dissolve once again

In you,?? sweet Ignorance.

Take me once again,

And make me forget.