Friday, December 16, 2016


 DASAKOM 45

 

 STANZA 1

 ONE DAY YASHODA SAW
 THE WHOLE WORLD IN YOUR MOUTH,
 WHEN, LYING ON HER LAP,
 YOU OPENED YOUR MOUTH IN A YAWN

 STANZA 2

 ANOTHER DAY, THE BOYS, YOU WERE PLAYING WITH,
 ANGRY THINKING THAT
 YOU CHEATED WHILE COUNTING FRUITS,
 COMPLAINED TO HER THAT YOU ATE MUD

 STANZA 3

 YOUR MOTHER GOT WILD,
 IN HER WORRY THAT YOU,
WHO EAT DURING THE FLOOD,  EARTH, WATER, INDEED EVERYTHING,
 WOULD CATCH FEVER, BY EATING A PINCH OF EARTH

 STANZA 4

 YOU LAUGHED AND DENIED IT,
WHEN YOUR MOTHER ASKED IF IT WAS TRUE,
 SHE EXCLAIMED “YOU SAY, NAUGHTY BOY,
 THAT WHAT ALL THESE BOYS SAY, IS FALSE
 OPEN YOUR MOUTH, AND LET ME SEE”

 STANZA 5

 YOU SHOWED HER WHO WANTED TO SEE A LITTLE PIECE OF EARTH,
 NOT JUST THE EARTH, BUT ALL THE WORLDS,
 AS IF TO SATISFY HER,
 MUCH MORE THAN SHE ASKED FOR

STANZA 6

 STANZA 7

 IN ONE PLACE, YOU SHOWED HER FOREST,
 IN ONE PLACE SEA, IN SOME PLACE THE SKY,
 IN SOME PLACE THE NETHERWORLD,
 WHAT DID SHE NOT SEE IN YOUR LITTLE MOUTH!

 STANZA 8

 AND MORE, SHE SAW,
 YOU LYING IN THE GREAT MILK SEA,
 AND OCCUPYING THE HIGHEST ABODE IN THE UNIVERSAL SPACE,
 AS ALSO YOUR LITTLE BOY, STANDING BEFORE YOU!

 STANZA 9

 YOU SHOWED HER IN YOUR OPEN MOUTH ANOTHER YOU,
SIMILARLY OPENMOUTHED,
 AND MORE AND MORE OF YOU, WITHOUT LIMIT AT ALL,
 GENERATING AN INFINITE SERIES, MY LORD

 STANZA 10

 YOU BROUGHT HER TO NORMAL,
 WHEN YOU SAW
 THAT SHE HAD SEEN THE INSCRUTABLE TRUTH
 UNDER ALL VISIBLE THINGS IN THE WORLD!
 

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