Natural Intoxication?

I have been accused
of being high
The learned put it out as
"unnatural intoxication"

Accusation of nursing
a madness,
What they call
accusation of love, if you may
a feeling of all-

Accused and said no more
Silence would speak for itself-

Nisha Balani
Summer, 2006
Mumbai, India

Serenity

I am aloof of my ego.
I am complete.
Can you hear me laugh? This laugh of serenity.
Only those can hear who recognize the laugh.
I have mastered.
I am aloof of my ego.

What you do on to me, is not me.
I am not me.
I am not this body, mind or my memory.
I am none of those or more. I am.
And this that I am, is unshakable.

Swirling and Whirling. I am.
Swirling and Whirling.... and Whirling... I am...