The Shape, Color Or Number That Define Me Poem by Bharati Nayak

The Shape, Color Or Number That Define Me

How can I define myself
By any one color, number or shape?
Is my figure, tall and lanky is my whole -self?
Is it not prone to change with aging or sickness?
My nose of medium size or my sparkling eyes
Would remain the same over the years?
The eyes would lose their sparkle with time
Or become cloudy by sadness
Wrinkles will show here and there on skin surface
My body is mortal and will change
with the vagaries of aging process.

Oh! How can I define myself?
Am I bound by any one color?
Does only the yellow sunshine appeal to me
Am I not attracted to white petals of a perfuming Jasmine?
Do I not love the red of red-rose,
the symbol of beauty and love?
Shall I not be attracted to green of a thick green forest
Or the soft green grass under my feet?
Can any one not love the blue waves of a sea or the azure blue of a sky
I am God' creation and naturally attracted to colors of a rainbow
How can I be limited to one only?

Can any one number define me?
I am one, but with family I become many.
My date of birth is a combination of numbers
and if we change one digit, my birthdate changes.
So a single number can never define me.
I am not limited to any one shape and color
I am a complexity of myriads and God's creative wonder!
@Bharati Nayak

Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Topic(s) of this poem: god,creation,colors,shape,identify
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The poem has been written in response to a poetry challenge on the above theme.in the Facebook Group Asian Literary Society
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