Strangeness of God in the Stranger

Strangeness of God in the Stranger

Straight from the steel base of total strangeness,
Starts the way to the world of strangeness,
Struggles of the strangeness among the strangers,
Stops when I left the base of Strangers.

Days within the base were dipped in sere and silence,
Days of darkness I looked to the stars on sky,
Deep in my heart I felt the ray of hope,
Dwells within that divine spark kindles hope.

Walking through the striate of unknown paths,
Walking in me the shadows of uncertain myths.
Why was I born? What did I do?
Why should I live? What will I do?

Looking through the cloudy leaves, I saw the peeping light,
Laughing and winking stars and lunar light,
Luring beauty of the nature beside,
Loving family’s sweet memory beside.

Sudden strange and shabby sound stopped my way,
Saw a boy who stands and stairs at my eye,
“I knew God will come in time through he is late”,
I believed the last words of my mother at her death.

I wondered in the words of little boy,
I pondered who is God today?
Is he the little stranger God?
Is it me the stranger God?

Surprises to see “The Stranger” straight way today,
Surpasses my life desire today,
I saw the Lord today,
In the smart little ‘Stranger” in the strange land.

- Sr Soniya K C


(Poem written on the theme “stranger in the strange land” at Indian Institute ofPsychology, Bangalore for the Poetry writing intercollegiate competition and won First prize)