A remote village <br />In this part of the country <br />Is unique <br />As it has a woman <br />With no belongings <br />Including a shelter above her head <br />A robe over her body <br />Sun, rain or cold <br />She remains nude <br />Though, thought to be mad initially <br />Her worth came to light <br />Over these years <br />She has no civilized look <br />With unattended and clogged hair <br />Falling along her shoulders <br />Upto her waist <br />No cleaning of her body <br />No brushing of her teeth <br />She nurses no skin ailments <br />She is neither bad smelling <br />She asks for food <br />And accepts whatever given <br />She eats only once in a day <br />She is at present seen as god <br />People worship her <br />Reaching her from far and wide <br />But she registers no happenings around <br />She talks gentle <br />She is not going to temples <br />She also knows not <br />That people are worshipping her <br />People have a lot good to say about her <br />She just smears the sacrd ash <br />On the forehead of those who bow before her <br />She listens to their problems <br />But, difintely looking blank <br />With apparent disregard <br />Irrespective of their nature and extent <br />At the end of it all <br />She will say what is going to happen <br />Without any emotion <br />She demonstrates that she is nothing special <br />And adds things are so with her <br />As nature wanted that way <br />In her nudity <br />People see no vulgarity <br />But sense divinity<br /><br />Bashyam Narayanan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/nudity-no-vulgarity-but-some-see-divinity/
