MOHIT MITRA Poet Free verse

Lithic Covenant

—The Last Tear Before Stone—

I retraversed the vale
Where anamnesis itself
Had forsworn my appellation.
The natal habitation remained unsealed,
Its taciturn chambers
Consecrating a silence
More primordial than bereavement.

Beyond the effaced thoroughfares,
A river had relinquished
Its fluency beneath immemorial stone.
One solitary scintilla endured—
The ultimal lachryma
Ere transience capitulated
Unto perdurance.

I reached.

And the self
I had sedimented
From laurels,
Certitudes,
And adamantine appellations,
Underwent its noiseless kenosis.

No empyrean responded.
The mountains perdured.
The telluric deep remained inexhausted.

Only possession,
Long enthroned within my grasp,
Abdicated.

Then,
Within that immaculate relinquishment,

An unbegotten Presence—
Without visage,
Without locution,
Without nominable essence—

Surpassed
Both nativity
And sepulture.

I departed
Bearing neither hierophany
Nor testament.

The river
Had never supplicated.

The stone
Had never required grace.

Let citadels
Be ingested
By Chronos.

Let sceptres
Revert to particulate oblivion.

Let every utterance
Be reabsorbed
Into the anteverbal silence.

Let every pilgrimage
Recede
Unto its telluric origin.

For ere the first river
Apprehended
The solar incumbency of flow,

The lachryma
Was already lithic.

And ere creation
Remembered water,

Lithos

Already

Was.

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