My life <br />Just twenty years more <br />Assumed of.. <br /> <br />I cogitate.. <br />Be righteous the best <br />Austere, spiritual <br />I expiate sins <br />Little and little of the whole chore <br />Pledges then my pristine heart <br />A goal of five hundred poems <br />Readable, referable <br />To my own achievement <br />Years pass away <br />Quiescence in satiation <br />But..but <br />Rejuvenated mind cognitive <br />Of my would-be rebirth <br />My assumption <br />Of me a songstress born nascent <br />Again a girl.. <br />Back past masticating the mind.. <br />All the lessons from my teacher and guide <br />A philosopher allthrough for what I am <br />Whom my voice has endorsed <br />My mother..my mother.. <br />My father too <br />Born to them same again? <br />Assuming the finale..<br /><br />Indira Renganathan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/assuming-3/
