Perhaps...

“Perhaps
Love isn’t the answer
Perhaps
Love isn’t enough
Perhaps
Beyond the desperation
To reconcile
Beyond the attempts
Of acceptance
Beyond the dread
Of divide
Love fails to guide
Perhaps
Love isn’t capable after all
To provide
What hate could
Perhaps
Lurking beneath
The shadow
Of identities
Germinating
Across the horizon
Of indifference
Persisting
Through the death
Unaccounted for
Through the life
Uncared for

It’s the hate
Only hate
Alas…!

Praveen Parasar
02/06/2020

To say...

"How do I say
What do I say
Perhaps I have said everything
That I had to say
Or maybe I do not have
Anything to say
Does it matter?
Do we must say?

The words fail the longing
Longing fails the logic
And the logic offers
Little solace
It could never anyway…

Innocent
Or ignorant?
The heart!
It asks for a monument
A tombstone
Neatly erected
Upon the ruins
Of their breaths
Whispers, Sighs
Where stranded
And
 Trampled upon
Lies the silence
Silence
That brought them
Together
Silence
That carried
Them, together
Silent
They lie
Miles apart
Yet, together…”

Praveen Parasar
19/05/2020

Tragedy...

“Cry your heart out 

Drown in your blood 

Turn into a corpse 

Bury yourself in thin air 

Let yourself be suffocated 

Stifle the body 

Let your screams scare you 

Let your breaths burn you 

While your own hands strangle you 

Fear being seen 

Hide from yourself 

While your own sight cripples you 

trapped within own skin 

Crushed beneath dreams 

There’s no escape no more 

Surrender, suffer 

(Suffer as if you loved) 

The night is afar 

The eyes little ajar 

Tears all dried 

Whispers all belied 

Who could you turn to? 

Still expect sympathy? 

You can’t play clown for too long 

Declared a pariah 

It’s time you give up 

You deserve no pity 

You deserve no mercy 

Your lies are tired 

Your manipulations laughable 

Caught red-handed 

You couldn’t convince no more 

The days loathe you 

Night mocks you 

Still throwing the dice? 

Selling from half dug grave? 

Your wisdom is rotten 

You are only buying yourself misery 

And some more 

Claiming to be  

On the journey 

To salvation 

Where there’s no salvation  

But only tragedy 

Alas…” 

Praveen Parasar 

16/03/2020