Hast thou god-wings?
Savitri answers to Death:
I am immortal in my mortality,
Topaz light of the day shining through all darkness;
My god-wings orange and gold in zooming fire
Reach the stars in trueness of the boundless night;
Bound not by hard fate or laws of ignorance,
But moved am I only by the will of my soul;
One in absolute will of the almighty she,
Works my immortality in the mortal world.
10 December 2024
Savitri was asserting-avowing that she is immortal even in her mortality and that she would not tremble against the terrifying gaze of hierarchies, that no Law and Fate can bend her will; she would meet them with the living fire of her soul. She wants her lover and husband Satyavan back, and that’s all; Death must concede to her demand. Since the beginning of the earth she has trod with Satyavan the tracts of Time and wherever he was being taken her soul would pursue him. Surely, Death wants to dismiss her claim, that she must go back with trivial paltry allotments of money or food or ration, small alms, petty gifts for the helpless mortal:
Against the Woman’s boundless heart arose
The almighty cry of universal Death:
“Hast thou god-wings or feet that tread my stars,
Frail creature with the courage that aspires,
Forgetting thy bounds of thought, thy mortal role?… ||137.81||
I will take from thee the black eternal grip:
Clasping in thy heart thy fate’s exiguous dole
Depart in peace, if peace for man is just.” ||137.89||
Featured image: Painting by Huta IX:2 #6
A+gainst| the Wom|+an’s bound|+less heart| a+rose|
The al+might|+y cry| of u|+ni+ver|+sal Death:|
“Hast thou| god-wings| or feet| that tread| my stars,|
Frail crea+ ture with| the cour|+age that| as+pires,|
For+get+ting| thy bounds| of thought,| thy mor|+tal role?|
I will take| from thee| the black| e+ter|+nal grip:|
Clasp+ing| in thy heart| thy fate’s| ex+ig|+u+ous doles|
De+part| in peace,| if peace| for man| is just.”|
The Winds of Wonder 
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