2016 Space Odyssey

By Cynthia Stephen

31 January, 2016
Countercurrents.org

January is the cruellest month.
The sun began its climb, but darknes
In the heart and mind did not decrease.
The stars still shone. They shone brighter on the night of the 17th.

A new star reached the horizon, leaving
Mere humans, mere stardust, mere minds, mere thoughts and words.

We were unworthy of your presence among us, our lives are fatal accidents,
You escaped the orbit of meaningless Sysiphean labour.
We now scan your work, your life, your words, your pictures.
For guidance on how to move forward.

Your are now a comet, blazing a shining path beyond this earth.

2016 Space odyssey.

But we have a long and lonely path to blaze on this earth.

Our destinies, and those of the children after us - beckon.
We look up. The sky is dark, but the dawn !
It comes every morning.

January is the cruellest month.

Cynthia Stephen (on Rohith Vemula’s death)

31st Jan 2016

Cynthia Stephen, Independent Writer and Researcher