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Secular or Eclectic
Muslim / Sufi
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About Usha Akella

Timeline (1967 - )

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Original Language
English

There is no choice in the matter

Themes
  Birth, Rebirth
  Garden
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

En(compass): The Poetry Caravan Anthology, by Usha Akella
Kali Dances, So Do I...: Poems, by Usha Akella

We met eventually.
Who knew we were going to plough each other's souls for a lifetime,
reap, harvest, bear fruit, decay and resurrect through each other.
Who would believe the histories that unfolded,
Who would believe that we have not even held hands,
Who would believe the flesh has played no part at all,
For some souls a passing by is enough,
Centuries dart forth and back in a glance,
The universe shifts and is recreated again,
The intellect is wiped out,
Some souls are Love's playthings,
They are destined to Love and accept the hardest tasks,
There is no choice in the matter.



- from "A face that does not bear the footprints of the world"

 

 

 

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