Beyond Mortality

by Sneha Chatterjee

You look into the mirror a thousand times and search for that perfect ‘you’ in the maze of beauty. You get so carried away with this soul-less world that you forget about me…

And life is like swimming in the air… more like falling…
But God never forgets to catch you, does he?

Have you ever looked into the mirror of your mind?

What is beauty?
No, it isn’t the glitter of stars or the glimmer of the moon…
God is beauty… beauty is God. The rest of everything fades away…

This earth won’t spin around the sun forever… But I’ll remain constant…
So talk to me o’ talk to me…
Give your life a meaning… give your life a destiny…

Only I can save you from hell… But why are you closing the gateway to heaven?
How will I ever unite you with God?

I want to bath in the waterfalls of truth and freedom… I want wings…
Not your sins…

Don’t try to turn me into your mortal brain’s slave…

Come… Look into the inside of me…
And if you can’t see me… what’s the use of your eyes?
Just to make fun of the black skins?
You refuse to peep beneath the corporeal skins…
Yet you’re so proud.

But when life leaves you… only I’ll be there to take you back home… to the kingdom of the seventh sky…

I am formless
I am your spirit
I am your soul
I am you.

Sneha Chatterjee is a sixteen year old high school student living in India. She's been writing poetry since age four and has written over 850 poems thus far—mostly spiritual and nature poems—and says her mother is her greatest source of inspiration. Sneha aspires to one day be a successful international singer and poet.