chetna

Priye
Sachet preet hi sacchi hai
Jahan bheet na ho khone ki
Khud ko
Aur tum se paane ka

lobh nahin.

What was I
but a grain of earth
till water

seeped in through,
wind suckled in
to gush the spirit forth
when turning

matter into me.
I felt then

thought, breathed
and thrived
merged myself into another

thus evolving more and more

I came from

nothing into being.