Evocation

by Umeshkumar Radhakrishnan

Here I stand blank

            searching for words and

                        something else?

Come, Come, I call out to you.

Come and draw my paper blue.

No! What sin are you committing!

            You enslave the unwilling,

                        harass their souls.

            Thou art a sinner.

                        No sinning evermore.

A Sinner! Mistaken thou art.

            I invite them to glorify,

                        to make peace in me.

            Not to chain them,

                        but to tie life’s string to tune.

They arise in me

            or I make them arise.

For, the sole goal is

            pleasure to the painful heart

            and solace to the tattered soul.