SC Musings for Nitya Gurukula

Born without Roles…

October 10, 2024

Dear Readers, Welcome to SC Musings, Blog 21,

We come to you with another Blog with a difference- a day earlier too, due to puja holidays. I am offering in this Blog a poetic intro to Roles, inviting you to journey through this one with images of your roles.

Born without roles, I am swathed in many now

Plunged from the cocoon of darkness into

Light and surrounded by many

I am nothing and have nothing.

Titles are bestowed from the very beginning

Son/daughter, brother/sister-so so many

Even before I know their meaning n

What I should and shouldn’t do in each of them for

Born without roles, I am swathed in many now.

Growth takes me into its lap, marking time

Ensuring milestones roll out

As the I in me tries to keep pace.

Time flies, and I fly with it, dictated by hormones

Internal machineries in me that I know not

Trying to match inside and outside

Complex mechanisms keep me guessing for

Born without roles, I am swathed in many now.

Layer upon layer, my emotions, thinking, relationships

Grows in this body as I become

An embodied self.

From nothing I become something, a someone

With more titles- some fit and others are

A total misfit- as I struggle on trying hard

To make meaning, finding my truth for

Born without roles, I am swathed in many now.

Slowly, and surely in the wide and deep search for truth

The fog clears and layers within

Separate to reconnect.

Light bulbs flash, meanings pop out revealing

A being within- who is more than the roles

Shaped by them with power to shape and

Hone them grows, firmer and stronger for

Born without roles, I am swathed in many now.

Mental health, in the work environment- wherever I

Exist and subsist is this awakening

To the inner-being.

Which is more than the given titles, much much more

Than our roles- when this wisdom pops up and out

Health reigns in the total self- stepping in and out of

Roles, I gingerly tread, balancing all the way for

Born without roles, I am swathed in many now.

From shadows of obscurity, I carved out a place

Where light and beauty

Fill body, mind n spirit.

After chasing many a rainbow, I found it waiting

To be captured in all it’s fullness. Yes, even when

It’s overcast and grey, a rainbow fills the sky

In each of us, helping navigate despite being

Born without roles and being swathed in many now.

Dear Readers,
Do reflect on your roles and rainbows within
See You in a fortnight in Blog 22