THE SPACE ODYSSEY

There should be an awakening:

beyond perplexities of karma,

transcending inevitability

of the horoscope,

shredding threads in

the net of genetic tangles.

There should be a sky:

beyond square boundaries

of latitudes and longitudes,

crossing firmaments of

cloud formations,

beyond finite spaces of

gravitational force.

To be weightless

inside a primordial egg,

a foetal infant,

wide-eyed,

close by the infinite planets

all ears

to unsettling reverberations

from the vast, eternal mystery,

to be mere conscience,

to be superman.

(Written on watching Stanley Kubrick's Masterpiece '2001- A SPACE ODYSSEY,, acknowledging wholeheartedly the indebtedness to the film's ending.)