Sickness…!

"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