“ i” instead of “I“

“ i” instead of “I“

P K Routray

The capital “I”

stands proudly for “me”

as if intoxicated with ego

from me, which can never go

whether I am  in a state of vanity

or in a state of humility.

This state of mine will persist

till my body on the earth exists

after which “I” will vanish

perhaps with body it will perish.

By the symbol “I” the English literature

highlights man and his egoistic character.

Is it the logic for assigning “I” to me?

but some other logic for “i” instead here I see.

A small “I” has two segments,

one stick and another point

which might appear to speak

point is the soul and body is the stick.

Both being separate, body unwilling soul may like to go.

the feeling mifht have belittled the state of man’s ego.

The pride falls with body in the grave

even man’s huge empire, him, cannot save.

Also with a point in the ‘i” always overhead

a feeling would have come to keep the ego dead.

Like all other pronouns being denoted by small letters

me by “i” instead of “I” might have put a shackle on ego forever.