Insomnia!

 

As if darkness trapped within

Dimension of narrow walls,

Glimpse of light at far ends

Scares more than awakes

A sense of being witnessed

Rambling yet trapped

Solitude or seclusion

One wonders, whilst haunted by

Echoes of scream, one whispers

In silence, dreams of nightmare

Touches that dark background

As if to feel what could absorb it all

Only to be swallowed, complete

As if a voice trapped within

Walls of a shell, floating

In the depths of sea, carries

A life, unheard-unknown

To many, yet floats and floats as if

To carry it to another world and beyond

As if; to tell tales to them, imagines one would sink

And deep enough and see it to surface

But, Alas! Only to be cut through and split

Before one could hear what murmur

For being trapped and for ages

Voices turned into stones, only to be decorated

Upon faces, so close yet so far

As if life trapped within

Reaches of eyes, grave, or a marsh

Sucked by leeches laying upon, as if thoughts

Holding onto few drops of blood left still

Breathes, as if one does amidst smoke

Sinks further yet stands still

For an urge to look beyond hazy air, and fire

Burning in poor heart

Licks own skin, but can taste no more

For damp soil drying upon skin

Tightens, chocks

As if shackles around neck

For one must not run away, but

Must face wrath to inherit

What belongs to none, Oh pity!

By: Praveen Parasar

Date: 01/02/2015