"There’s a
sickness growing within
As if
worms grow upon leftover corpse
For the
life in you must be punished
And the
dead inside must be annihilated
As the
night consumes solitude
Or the day
slaughters silence
You shall
watch yourself being spilled over
Of your
weathered veins, in awe and fear
while your
fascination takes turns
to rape
your vigor
you shall
bear the burnt
for
playing deaf and dumb
for rather
too long, and
now when
you seek to scream aloud
there’s
only hollow noise
that fills
your lungs and drowns you
deep down
abyss of shallow life
after all
what else makes
a life life?
if not for
the misery it inflicts
if not for
the lies it offers
and pieces
of naked hope
which
scares more than comforts…”
Praveen
Parasar
24/11/2016