A
Fairy Tale
She
stared at the night bleak
clutching
a pall of gloom
pangs
in morsels snowballed
gnawing
palpating membranes,
a
teenage love story
sizzling
promise of a fairy tale
ended
half baked
a
Cinderella transfixed
at the stroke of twelve.
Depression
smouldered
stratified
under a pale moonlight
only
if tears could efface life
she
shed enough of it dipping bones
cloistered
in shallow breath
looking
down the precipice-
suddenly
she spied above
a
steady luminous gaze
the
star, a confidant, her mother
in
the farthest corner of the galaxy
she
had frantically looked for
to
bare a long orphaned bosom.
She
waltzed through life anew
in
love that heals, hope that never forsakes
the
precipice a picturesque plot of land
and
she lived, happily ever after.
Grief
Grief
is not charcoal grey you see
dappled with a splash of strokes
culled
from palette of emotion
VIBGYOR spectrum wrenched from sorrow.
Cherished
moments mellow pale yellow
violet
shadow cast on ashen visage
a
tear bed of meandering blue,
anguish
smoulders in fathomless void
the
hue sunset orange,
dying
embers in pangs exude
a
candle light filigree of memories
in
recess of dark chambers
nurses
an ochre wound.
Voices
Voices
pronounced brazenly juggle
dodge
to face facts
manipulate
meanings
debone
truth to tales
prescribe
narratives to subjugate
the
sea of ‘other’ voices
Voices
profound sigh
through
pine woods, mountains,
valleys
streets and alleys
gasp
for articulation
in
art and articles
get
lost in desert of exile
hushed
in graves for good
bulldozed
by censors, curbs, clampdowns,
Beware
if you Dare!
Voices
young, plastered with a wall of silence
at
the end of dead lane
resurge
indomitable
in
Nature’s timelessness.
Voices Within-2020 :: Setu, February 2020
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