Wanderings…!

“As if an abyss without darkness

You could see yourself falling, and falling

Down and deeper

As if across the length of a sea

You scream

To be an echo

While your voice

Float across horizon

As if clouds without rain

Wandering as if breeze

Carrying no poetry across mountains

Breeze of winter

Harsh and cold

As if life itself

For to be a poetry without words

And a night without darkness

What pity, it must be

To be left on one’s own

While listening to tick tock of the clock

As it dictates of the rulebook

While the world stifles to

Stand in attention

One must not miss

Yet, he felt left alone

As if a shot missed

While shooting to kill

He must be charged with felony

A crime of severe consequence

To devoid the world, himself

Of his self

How could he, how could he?

He wondered

Where was it leading to?

Run, run away

As strange as it felt

He flew away

As if for ever

But to where

As if flying over the sea

To no end, Alas!

Only if he knew what this ever meant

To be a sailor without ship

To be a poetry without words

To be an I without self

To be a you without I

Standing beneath

Shadow of himself

A banyan tree

Yet naked branches

Who resides among?

Who rests along?

A few mellow cries

A few shallow dreams

Or may be

Just a few hollow nightmares

He dreaded

Tagging along

Who cares anyway?

For life moves on

With you

Without you

As always,

Wake up

Sleep

Swim along

Buried beneath

while

Someone will place a bouquet

And a few words

For you,

Words

For who else

Could define

A life lived short

A death half lived

A drop of tear

Unsaid, unheard

Wiped away

Off the face

Just like that...”

By: Praveen Parasar

Date: 06/03/2016