The Illiterate (A Sonnet) | Abhijit Naskar | Pani, Agua, Water, It’s All One

I am poetry,
I am the poet.
I am literature,
Yet I am illiterate.

Illiterate am I of intellect,
Illiterate am I of rituals.
My literacy comes from the soil,
My literacy makes the world equal.

Drunkard am I, absurd am I,
All I know is but love’s insanity,
Past all Cross and MC squared,
Love is the only cosmic literacy.

Be literate of books and brain,
But more so of the dormant light.
Literacy of letters earns you living,
Literacy of love earns you a life.