Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 17:27:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: bhaatasari <gajjala+-AT-pitt.edu>
Subject: Re: Sita of Troy (Trojan Days)




"Yet, as Hanuman fought against the alligator,
the dancing Makara,
the woman woke to the stream of possibility
and enthralled it,
met him with chance encounters
of her voice talking with a friend,
explaining the situation
a mistyped key,
an error message.
She bicycled with her hair down close,
and the Gurus walked from the grave.   "


		Oh brother Hanuman,
		cried Sita
		thankyou for	
	revealing
to me
the stream of possibility

				even as - watching brother Hanuman's
				super-human feats
				she knew that he too
			was trapped in the
			mould
			of masculinity
			trapped in a mould
			forced to conform

			if he saw and understood (and Sita knew he did...

sometimes his eyes
conveyed this )

		if he saw and understood the
			pain
		of waiting

always waiting

		if saw and understood the magnitude of possibility
			he had helped her unleash

changing what she had
been
brought up to
believe
was her role in life

			he watched silently

			as Rama compelled by
			social pressure
			ordered
				nay forced
			her to walk on fire

even as Rama himself 
knew of
her unshaken integrity

			compelled by social pressure

	they watched 
		as she walked on fire

all on her own
searing heat touching her barefeet
her anger and her sadness were her only
armor

			she understood them
				but she could not help being angry.



The Gurus watched from afar
digging their graves...

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