The sun pales

The Sun pales

P K Routray

With mighty power of the sun

its pervading rays, can avoid none.

So goes the human thinking

hence a lie cannot stay hiding.

But still mightier and faster is poetic thought

unlike the sun rays, it can touch sensitively every spot

immaterial, whether it is located within or outside

but sureenders it, to the imaginative poetic stride.

It can be told, on a spot where the sun light cannot reach,

all barriers to that spot poetic thoughts can breach.

The sun light has a measurable and definite speed

but all the limits, the speed of poetic thoughts can exceed.

An opaque object impedes the sun light to travel further

but to forge ahead the poetic thoughts take a curved path or jump over.

The sun light depicts only the objects’ visible characters

the poetic thoughts adds many dimensions to it with imaginative feathers

to force an appealing effect of its character on the viewers,

pales the sun light in comparison to poetic thoughts on all these measures.