Life…!

"I am life

Your master, who you owe

Your flesh and bones

Your truth and lies

Your filth and plight

Your pain and cries

Who did you think

Owns you and your shadow

I will rob you of your tears

And put you on display

I will sell your dreams

And nightmares alike,

For you cannot distinguish anyway

I will drink your blood, which

You have diluted off your pretensions

And get high listening to your screams

While you will be deprived of sleep

For they are my lullaby

You must entertain me the way

I wish, what else but an act

You have practiced all these years and still,

You fear being given

Your soul on platter

For you must taste how does it feel

To eat yourself,

Self, which you sold a long time back

To me, I am your life

And I promise to keep you dead

Until you realize you cannot escape

For you have lost your right to die

And death has refused

To carry you away

For I am your life

And I enjoy watching you suffer

You must enjoy it too..."

Praveen Parasar

31/07/2016