avatarKallol Mazumdar

Summary

The web content is a reflective poem that explores the complexities of societal norms, gender roles, and the essence of identity, while encouraging a deeper understanding of the self beyond traditional constructs.

Abstract

The poem titled "Deva and Devi: Two strands of the same thread" delves into the intricate tapestry of human experience, questioning the loss of morals and the influence of societal perceptions on individuality. It challenges the conventional roles assigned to men and women, highlighting the pain and struggle that come with conforming to these roles. The narrative touches on the suppression of femininity and the societal expectation of masculine stoicism, suggesting that true strength lies in embracing one's vulnerabilities. The poem also reflects on the spectrum of human identity, beyond the binary of pink and blue, and into the darkness that encompasses all colors, symbolizing a deeper, more inclusive understanding of self. It calls for a shedding of preconceived notions and an acceptance of the multifaceted nature of existence, ultimately leading to a celebration of diversity and the inner core that unites us all.

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  • The poem critiques the societal pressure to conform to gender stereotypes, which can lead to a loss of individual morals and a misguided pursuit of acceptance.
  • It expresses that the traditional expectations of men and women are restrictive and can cause emotional turmoil, preventing genuine expressions of identity.
  • The narrative suggests that societal tragedies often result from the perpetuation of outdated and harmful ideologies, which can lead to generational trauma.
  • The poem posits that the feminine is often undervalued and that women's suffering is exacerbated by not being encouraged to be financially independent.
  • It challenges the objectification of women's bodies, asserting that a person's worth is not determined by their physical attributes or by the gaze of others.
  • The poem emphasizes that purity is not about societal labels but about the heart's capacity for forgiveness and emotional depth.
  • It encourages readers to embrace the full spectrum of their identity, including the darker aspects, to achieve a more authentic and fulfilling existence.
  • The author invites readers to join "The Power of Poetry" on Medium, suggesting a belief in the transformative power of creative expression and community.

Deva and Devi: Two strands of the same thread

Of all my virtues lose morals, of societal perceptions weaving till we follow someone, something, and somewhere in vain

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Born and bred, Raised in dread, of symphony merging on the concocted thread

Musings start with hairs and knuckles, weights and dumbles, glare and aromatic candles

For the two turns right, and the other ends wrong, forever lowborn if your identity is foolishly obtuse and young

For men can’t cry, nor raid a sky, it traps footholds of feminine rain that can’t pretend to buy

Care, Caress bloated to fall ill-fated with contraptions, like the men never oozed his sexuality beyond his conventional domino domination.

Tricksters come to avenge your disdain, for weakening strengths and harrowing pain, yet the opposite of you lies in the inner sanctum of the house lost in pain

The gravel unravels and the sands get thrown to your eyes, of innate and intricate spiraling flights, the eye caught up in a red sore.

Not everyone can let their eyes become sore, for there is gore to overhaul your core, to bear the horrors of someone’s roar and unleash what they call the plight of silent uproar

The streets turn dirty, and the night turns haughty, of all the sigmas and deltas bait each other and play the gender of games, of one end to another, of spectrums to linings, of rainbow colors to pink and blue. What ifs of traditional lost cultures.

The pink gets enveloped by dark blue

For only black can absorb anything and everything of dark blue, of an inkling within, as the deeper you is just dark and dark like the visuals when we close our eyes, pink, blue, magenta, mahogany which color we see, we see all of them densely flutter and getting consumed by darkness.

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Of cosmos that lay in bare hands crumbling, of sorrows, aching

And build a tomb of lies, to fail the mistress and the master, to gain control over the mind,

To shed the armor and let the gore take over, Crying intuitions and hoppity hop the dreams lurk,

Societal tragedies are often handled in books of mysteries, One littered with the full disgust of a rotten fart,

With a smell profusely carrying heat for generations and building aberrations and cataclysmically falling in the pit of enchanting trepidations claiming no reparations.

Yet the identities kneel to pray and assert their will, of not being the holy grail but being lost in the dungeons of hell

For who decides who is who, like the lost suction when emotions are trapped,

For the feminine suffers without money, as she was never told to earn for herself,

That her body is not a paradise, lost only to the gaze and lust of men,

A substance will always be your substance

An amazement will be your own doing

Morality will be your version of predictability of structuring lives, beings, and essences.

Loving every day, every damn day, for one is happy they are not the version of the people they entice and formulate themselves in their minds as idolaters, flaky and impure

For purity is not a stamp, it’s the heart trapped in an assuaged coldness and yet I forgive you, and that is purity.

The sorrows heal, brazen definition kneels, and we move and move in rejoicing to the top of the hill in dark blue, pink, or rainbow colors.

We either flutter in the prism and fall on as white light or be the seven colors we claim to be after the prism splits us,

Or just the blue and pink we believe to be, or the mixing of all that’s black, the core of an unending all, a void that is deeper, wider, and scarier

And we enter slowly, steadily and fastly……………….

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