A Song 70

At Marine Drive
in Arabian Sea,
Kabir and Tuka,
Jasmine and Jehangir,
abhang in windy devotions,
ice-packing a bleeding Earth;
they could not do more
than what they knew;
what they were taught;
could not make it beyond
of the beyond;
drenched,
wet,
still,
at Chowpatty
on Aashad Ekadashi.