Itinerary Of A Jade Poem by Prabhat Kumar Sahoo

Surpassing an unreturned prolix highway of the time
With onerous cargo on the back
This nimble life-horse see
Disastrous frontier of a desert
Just a little ahead.

Exhaustion, desperation and throe of the old age
Disarray sometimes rapid music of its trotting
And the restless dust-storm of remembrances
Created after running hoofs
Once incapable of touching its tail
Now jumps over it again and again.

Its sweaty gummy hairs
Embrass the particles of remembrances
Very deeply
This Jade become helpless
Absolute helpless
Making up itself a 'Statue of dusts'.

May a State is ahead
On which highway
Procession of dusts shall forerun
And the jade shall drag its body
Being choked amidst the heavy darkness
With the blessings of that procession
To pour a strong kiss
On the last line of that nebulous State.