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The Web Poetry Corner - Doug Larson - Untouchable (a poem about India's caste system)

Untouchable (a poem about India's caste system)

by

Doug Larson

it is my place
and it is caste in stone
engraved deeply upon
the grave marker that is my face
my purgatory
for imaginary sins committed
in past lives unrecalled
but not insignificant

I touch the untouchable
wallow the impure
handle their detritus as penance

endure

my dreams are dead
I kill them daily - but
they resurrect themselves always
rising from the ashes of my fate
as hate

I am impure
I touch the untouchable
and I am what I am
yet I feel a purity within
burning hot and clean
sterilizing the corruptness of my condemned flesh
and it threatens to burn clear through
and flash over as raw fire
to free my immortal soul

It is my ultra-clean
my savior
and it will be my salvation
my epiphany
and it makes me smile

my

Hate

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