Fall…!

“Wet-land of a swamp

Calls strangers with an invitation

Come, come and smell this water-lily

Come and test yourself, could you walk through

Could you step-in and carry your weight around

Naïve heart, silly enough to fall in such trap

Despite knowing the trick

Strays in, only to sink beneath

Even before it realizes having no ground underneath

Embarrassed, asks to let it go

Let you go! Laughs the swamp out loud

Let’s face it poor stranger

You have chosen your fall

You must have given it a thought

Before you dared to jump in

Let’s face it; it’s not me but you

Your own greed, your own wicked heart

Who wanted to feast upon a flower?

Who wanted to carry it back as a trophy?

Of a hunt, where you have fallen hunted now

Ashamed, clueless it screams, it cries

It asks to be helped

Its plastic tears only bogging him down further

It struggles and as much more it does

As much more it sinks beneath

Alas! There’s no escape

From your own web of manipulations

Even worse when you do that knowing

No one kills you as brutally, as your own shadows

Shadows you built, convinced

You could have them under control

But how could one control the devil

High upon taste of own blood

Carrying a one way ticket to nowhere…”

By: Praveen Parasar

Date: 15/4/2016