BOOK

Once I lost my way, and found myself in a herd.
Joining the herd, I continued to crawl and grope in darkness for ages along with others.
Then one day, one of us saw the Sun.
But the Sun dazzled the rest of us, blinded us, and we turned our back on It.
Time passed, and the soul of that “one of us” took wings and became one with the Sun.
We continued to cling to the shadow of his perished body, and built an elaborate fence along it. Strong stones and sharp barbed wire ensured that the fence was sound, exclusive, and inpenetrable. Within it our generations flourished.
Years later, we wrote a Book. The Book defined the Sun as “Giant Firefly”

Then again we lost ourselves in darkness and perished.

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(Translated by the author from his original Marathi “kaajavaa”)