Realpolitik

Under the tree of learning of another life, the primitive father arrives. Casts a spell of wisdom, between sorrow and death with a speck of tears in circle of beings. But a rain-soaked serpentine path leads to a ravine. A talisman reignites the fear of unknown. Panic grips the roots, branches, green-leaved hopes. Cambium stops working, cutting the flow of nutrients. The lady of darkness descends on the boulders of truth, piercing through the layers of light ruffling the winds of change. Devotees splatter the red wine on the cupped palms of priest and ask, who was responsible for long life of knife. No reliable intellectual wants to become a bartender. Nobody dares to play the Realpolitik. SATISH VERMA