light or darkness

when
i asked
a person
like me
do you
want to go
towards the light
or
towards the darkness

he
replied

when
i was inside
a mustard seed
i was
only a mustard seed

i did not want
to become
the storm
of autumn

and again
when
i dissolved
into the colour
of the Aparajita
and became
blue

i did not tell
any sailor
of a submarine
in the voice
of rain
that there is
an east
with my name
written on it

now
tell me

light
or darkness

who
will help me
put on
the clothes
of an orange
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