OBLIVIUS & THE SEVEN DEADLY SAINTS – MYSTIC POETRY FROM INDIA

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Seven deadly saints warned

He won’t be able to enjoy

The colorful life as the other Faustus did.

Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, a renowned poet and writer from Chandigarh, India, shares his poetry

Jernail-Singh-Sindh CourierDr. Jernail Singh Anand is Seneca Award Laureate who has authored more than175 books of English literature. He won highest Serbian award charter of Morava and his name adorns the Poets’ Rock in Serbia. He is President of Chandigarh-based International Academy of Ethics. He also won Franz Kafka and Maxim Gorky awards and was conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy (honoria causa) by University of Engineering & Management, Jaipur.

the-walking-dead-saints-s.640.1080.o4jh.0OBLIVIUS & THE SEVEN DEADLY SAINTS

Faustus entered into a contract

With devils only once

The whole cosmos had come

To halt his steps

But inordinate passion of the

Renaissance hero

Finally got the better of his wit.

 

Every day a Faustus signs

An agreement with gods

And enters this world

Armed with a hundred boons

A million powers

And a few responsibilities too

Which he then tends to ignore.

 

Gods when signing the pact

For around five or six tens of years

Had asked man again and again

To think and rethink

Seven deadly saints* warned

He won’t be able to enjoy

The colorful life as the other Faustus did.

 

Man was eager to get out of the clammy cell

He ticked every option.

Okay Okay Okay

But when he opened his eye

He found his memory had left him

And he was an orphan

Who had suffered a stroke of amnesia!

 

A man said I am your father,

A lady said, I bore you, I am your mother

They are others born to me

And they, your relatives, by blood

He was now trapped in this blood shed

And very soon lost to his orientation divine.

 

The deadly saints now appear

In his dreams and tell him

You are in the wrong

But Neo-Faustus has no time

To listen to these warnings

A descendant of Faustus, the lost.

**Oblivius too is his ancestor’s ghost.

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*Seven deadly saints: Purity, Honesty, Goodness, Love, Integrity Hope, Faith.

**Oblivius is Neo-Faustus, a character of Neo-Mythology…he represents amnesia

Faustus was visited by Seven Deadly Sins in Marlow’s story, often referred to as Marlovian outreacher. I have tried to reverse it with Seven Deadly Saints.

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