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| Satbir Chadha |
That Moment
I
clenched my fists, like one clings to life
I
screamed
My head
thrown back
The
deepest deep throated scream
Loudest
longest scream
Till my
breath stopped, my parched lips smarted
My back
arched up in a convoluted resistance
Then
all was still, all movements stopped
A cry,
a baby’s cry, filled up the world
Most
primal, his first breath
And the
glowing ball of the sun
Landed
on my sky, my abdomen
A warm sticky
gooey bloody sun
Swam on
my vast flesh
Oh!
That moment! One in a lifetime
The
spark of cognition, of the miracle that had happened
That
one moment in my being my body my soul
Nothing
ever in future had that magic
It is
like after the rains
The sun
sits cradled in the lap of the sky
The
incessant tsunami of pain, moleculed
To a
delicate gurgle
As my
belly was the expanse of the sky, the horizon and all beyond
And my son lay warmly cradled there on.
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