Drop by drop…!

“Drop by drop we drank the moon

Drop by drop the night drank us

Drop by drop our bodies burnt

Drop by drop we melted away

Drunk upon each other

Drop by drop we sunk beneath darkness

Drop by drop our faces fell apart

Drop by drop we collected our shadows

Drop by drop we buried our heart

Drop by drop we lost the art

Of making love,

Drop by drop

Drop by drop, oh darling!

We walked past the dawn

and there were fragments of us

tangled around, oblivious, alone

as if pieces of a dream long way gone

and nothing but a few mere words

left scattered upon paper

as if too wounded to carry themselves

to their graves even

Drop by drop

Drop by drop…”

Praveen Parasar

21/02/2017

Final Verdict…!

“Once pronounced a culprit

Your leftover innocence mocks you

While your futile struggle offers little help

To climb out of the swamp of indifferent hearsay

Left to sink beneath the porous ground

Built upon heaps of morality

That were never meant to carry

Slightest weight of reason

You are only to find solace

In warmth of shame and guilt

While losing breaths over damned mud

it fills your body as hungry larvas

lurking to lick you off your bones

as if to wipe your dirty existence

and naked of your foul defense

declared evil, you are to be burnt

fire fueled by surmises does well

you scream would turn out as empty howl

for laughing passing by gushing winds

while virtuous gods would celebrate

the ceremonial end of a declared vice

Justice must be delivered

Or so they say, indeed!

you must not seek any help, but suffer

for being marked an outcast

you have only self to blame…”

Praveen Parasar

15/02/2017