Immanence
Let me soil you for once.
Allow my soiling body
to inscribe itself,
- to realize itself-
and overwrite
your overwhelming corporeality.
Nay, have I confounded you?
This soiling business isn`t unique,
isn`t novel.
I contaminate your kitchen, your worship with menstrual blood.
I am filth.
I seduce you away from sainthood.
Temptation.
I render your performance compromised, complicit.
I am a cumbersome baggage.
Allow my corruption due credit, credibility and recognition,
so that
you cannot evade
- my t-r
a-c-e-s
immanent within -
your overwritten self
BODY
Context.
Immanence (II)
(I)
When you enter me,
I am bewildered
to recognize your subjectivity
always already immanent in my own.
I attempt to fathom this repression,
as I find myself capable of becoming you.
A richer sense of self - he and she make me
as I accept, nurture, repeat and incorporate you
within me.
(II)
When you barge into me,
Invade, Intrude, Penetrate so as to know, encompass, overpower,
I slip out of you,
delude
you gaze,
turn into stone and
hibernate.
At times I un-repeat, un-become myself.
And in your attempts to capture me,
I find your subjectivity flustered, marked and
terribly afraid
to recognize
and repeat itself.
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Anamika Purohit recently completed her Masters in English Literature - Honours with Research from the University of Mumbai. She enjoys the process of engagement when it comes to Literature, Cinema, conversations or composition.
